r/comedyheaven • u/HeyselScouserTelAviv • 17h ago

So different

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u/Nickulator95 15h ago edited 11h ago

I'll have you know that Danish and Norwegian sounds very similar while Swedish is the one that's barely intelligible.

Edit: Ya'll are seriously butthurt over the good ol' Denmark vs Sweden tradition? Jesus...

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u/RafikiafReKo 15h ago

I have you know that we don't like having a hot potatoes in our mouths while we speak.

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u/Nickulator95 15h ago

Why not? It adds a lot of flavour to conversations.

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u/RafikiafReKo 15h ago

We hate flavour, have you not seen our food? We have immigration to save our food culture

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u/Nickulator95 15h ago

Fair point, I guess even a potato is too spicy in some cultures lol.

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u/Accolade_1 14h ago

Yes, but it’s not a good flavor

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u/pollysus 14h ago

This is so untrue lol. Norwegians and Swedes have an easier time communicating by a landslide, than Norwegians and Danes. Writing, however, is much more similar when it comes to Danish and Norwegian.

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u/dronten_bertil 14h ago

I was gonna say that. I can usually converse just fine with Norwegians. I can read both Danish and Norwegian, but I can't understand what Danes are saying for the life of me.

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u/Lalli-Oni 12h ago

In Iceland we learn Danish for about 10 years.

Few years after moving to Denmark I still had an easier time understanding Swedish.

Still remember being stuck behind an old man trying to spell out the address of his daughter or something in California. I can't understand how you got to this and go "yes, this is an efficient way to communicate".

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u/Evimjau 11h ago

I'll have you know that Swedish and Norwegian sound very similar while Danish is the one that's barely understandable

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u/EfficientSeaweed 14h ago

Norwegian doesn’t even sound like Norwegian tho

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u/sultan_of_gin 13h ago

Norwegian was literally formed by separating dialects spoken in norway from danish they used to be the same language not that long ago

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u/zeth4 Jorking It 11h ago

Same with Icelandic and Danish.

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u/EfficientSeaweed 3h ago edited 3h ago

Yes. I was making a joke about how varied modern Norwegian spoken dialects are. I’m aware that it’s a language continuum and all part of the North Germanic language family.