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[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 13:51:55 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 13:05:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> Do you speak Bokmål or Nynorsk?
>
> Bokmål, but neither Bokmål or Nynorsk are naturally spoken 
> languages, they are written languages.
>
> Nobody actually speaks Nynorsk (only in poetry, drama and 
> movies where it is read in a rather literal way), it is a 
> synthetic language, but it is quite close to some dialects (and 
> I sometimes flip over when talking to people who are close to 
> it). Nynorsk came about as part of the national romantic 
> movement, an attempt to find the "true norwegian language". 
> Then again Bokmål (which I do speak) is also a "synthetic" 
> language that came about as "mispronounced" Danish (which was 
> the formal official language for a long time). Kind of like 
> Danish spoken letter-by-letter thus getting more clear 
> consonants than in a natural language. Some decades ago they 
> decided to create a new united languages that basically was a 
> new synthetic bastardized language that nobody wanted to speak, 
> and they gave up on it. In the districts Bokmål is more natural 
> and "rounded" than here in Oslo though and some dialects sounds 
> like a natural mix and it wouldn't make much sense to say they 
> speak Bokmål or Nynorsk. I believe pure Bokmål as a spoken 
> language was more of an upper class thing and is called Riksmål 
> (Bokmål that tends towards archaic forms)
>
> The funny thing is that Danish and Bokmål almost reads the 
> same, but sounds completely different and some words even have 
> opposite meanings ("grine" means to laugh in Danish, but to cry 
> in Norwegian). Norwegians sometimes joke that in order to get a 
> Dane to understand what you are saying you have get really 
> drunk and mumble, then they will understand you perfectly! Or 
> maybe it is just factual and based on experience? Alcohol is 
> cheaper in Denmark…

Very interesting. I wish I could speak all languages on the 
planet!

>> Here's a nice piece about "Language Mavens". They are quite 
>> common in every country, and invariably they don't have a clue 
>> about how languages and the human mind work:
>>
>> http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~sih01001/english/fall2007/TheLanguageMavens.pdf
>
> Looks very interesting, I have to give that a closer look later.

Yes, it's a nice read. I've had my fair share of language mavens, 
they really don't know nothing, oops, anything about natural 
languages. They're just opinionated pricks that are full of 
themselves.