"J L Russell" <·········@nospam.alum.mit.edu> writes:
> "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <·········@becket.net> wrote in message
> ···················@becket.becket.net...
> > Espen Vestre <·····@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net> writes:
> >
> > > The current scandinavian germanic languages (where "Scandinavia" = the
> > > scandinavian peninsula and Denmark) are so close that they can be
> > > considered dialects of the same language.
> >
> > Does this include the minority languages of the very far north, no to
> > mention the Finns???
> >
> Those are not "germanic languages".
Eek, I'm sorry, I misparsed the sentence! Thanks for the correction.
Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> "J L Russell" <·········@nospam.alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <·········@becket.net> wrote in
>> message ···················@becket.becket.net...
>>> Espen Vestre <·····@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> The current scandinavian germanic languages (where
>>>> "Scandinavia" = the scandinavian peninsula and
>>>> Denmark) are so close that they can be considered
>>>> dialects of the same language.
>>>
>>> Does this include the minority languages of the very
>>> far north, no to mention the Finns???
>>>
>> Those are not "germanic languages".
>
> Eek, I'm sorry, I misparsed the sentence! Thanks for the
> correction.
If you by "very far north" refer to icelandic I think they are included
in that the language originated the same place.
Personally I (I'm from Denmark) find norwegian easier to understand than
swedish - and wouldn't claim to understand icelandic at all. This has
historical reasons as opposed to geographical.
To the far north there is also Greenland, but their language come
from a totally different group of languages.
--
Jens Axel S�gaard
"Jens Axel S?aard" <······@soegaard.net> wrote in message news:<·························@dspool01.news.tele.dk>...
> Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > "J L Russell" <·········@nospam.alum.mit.edu> writes:
> >
> >> "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <·········@becket.net> wrote in
> >> message ···················@becket.becket.net...
> >>> Espen Vestre <·····@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> The current scandinavian germanic languages (where
> >>>> "Scandinavia" = the scandinavian peninsula and
> >>>> Denmark) are so close that they can be considered
> >>>> dialects of the same language.
> >>>
> >>> Does this include the minority languages of the very
> >>> far north, no to mention the Finns???
> >>>
> >> Those are not "germanic languages".
> >
> > Eek, I'm sorry, I misparsed the sentence! Thanks for the
> > correction.
>
> If you by "very far north" refer to icelandic I think they are included
> in that the language originated the same place.
> Personally I (I'm from Denmark) find norwegian easier to understand than
> swedish - and wouldn't claim to understand icelandic at all. This has
> historical reasons as opposed to geographical.
>
> To the far north there is also Greenland, but their language come
> from a totally different group of languages.
Norway, Sweden and Finland extend far to the north of Iceland, so the "very
far north" would apply to those nations, not to Iceland.
"Sigvaldi Eggertsson" <·······@binet.is> wrote in message
·································@posting.google.com...
> Norway, Sweden and Finland extend far to the north of Iceland, so the
"very
> far north" would apply to those nations, not to Iceland.
For example, I live "in the middle" of Norway, Bod� in Nordland for
those who are interested. This is north of Iceland and I can still go
almost a thousand miles north and still be on the Norwegian mainland.
If we include Svalbard, which we should I can go almost as far north
As the northern coast of Greenland and still be in Norway.
--
Thomas.
Approaching singularity.
Thomas Stegen CES2000 wrote:
> For example, I live "in the middle" of Norway, Bodø in Nordland for
> those who are interested. This is north of Iceland and I can still go
> almost a thousand miles north and still be on the Norwegian mainland.
> If we include Svalbard, which we should I can go almost as far north
> As the northern coast of Greenland and still be in Norway.
It must play havoc with your compass...
;)w
[ Will Deakin ]
> Thomas Stegen CES2000 wrote:
>> For example, I live "in the middle" of Norway, Bod� in Nordland for
>> those who are interested. This is north of Iceland and I can still go
>> almost a thousand miles north and still be on the Norwegian mainland.
>> If we include Svalbard, which we should I can go almost as far north
>> As the northern coast of Greenland and still be in Norway.
> It must play havoc with your compass...
No, why should it? Bring out a globus, locate the position of the
magnetic north pole (currently somewhere at the northern coast of
western Canada, I believe), and observe that it's more or less on the
opposite side of the geographical north pole from Norway, giving no
great deviation in any part of this country.
Martin
--
"An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader."
-Paul Graham, On Lisp
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:35:58 +0200 skrev Jens Axel S�gaard:
> Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>> "J L Russell" <·········@nospam.alum.mit.edu> writes:
>>
>>> "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <·········@becket.net> wrote in
>>> message ···················@becket.becket.net...
>>>> Espen Vestre <·····@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> The current scandinavian germanic languages (where
>>>>> "Scandinavia" = the scandinavian peninsula and
>>>>> Denmark) are so close that they can be considered
>>>>> dialects of the same language.
>>>>
>>>> Does this include the minority languages of the very
>>>> far north, no to mention the Finns???
>>>>
>>> Those are not "germanic languages".
>>
>> Eek, I'm sorry, I misparsed the sentence! Thanks for the
>> correction.
>
> If you by "very far north" refer to icelandic I think they are included
> in that the language originated the same place.
No, I guess he ment the language spoken and written by the Sami (?)
people, i.e Sami. This language is close to finish.
mvh,
--
[simula.research laboratory]
�smund �deg�rd
Scientific Programmer
[ �smund �deg�rd ]
> No, I guess he ment the language spoken and written by the Sami (?)
> people, i.e Sami. This language is close to finish.
Sorry to bitch about spelling errors, but this one is rather critical
-- I suppose you meant Finnish. :-)
Martin
--
"An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader."
-Paul Graham, On Lisp