Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bertel Lund Hansen Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang Subject: Re: Somewheres Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 18:55:58 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2024 18:55:58 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2b8780f334df5e50580bec7745eabb1e"; logging-data="3080829"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+a8Djg831pxd2Et4J1MKhnuk5btrVVMeCoM6Mt0XWsXA==" User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:l+DJycfviIpBF1Vep4ckrOmE2PA= Bytes: 1835 Adam Funk wrote: >> Spoken Danish drops as much as possible. "Synes" => "sys", "trapperne" >>=> "trappern", and there are many more examples. >> >> In dk.kultur.sprog (language) we joked with pronouncing >> "socialdemokratiet" with three syllables (it has 8). > > Isn't there a Scandinavian joke to the effect that Danish drops all > the consonants & one of the others drops all the vowels, so it evens > out? There may be, but it's wrong. Danes drops anything. Swedes and Norwegians generally speak clearly. -- Bertel Kolt, Denmark