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From: Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk>
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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