It's interesting they touch on the whole Nynorsk thing there - now that is a mess and a half (though Bokmål has its own issues). Of course, English is hardly great either . . .
Let's face it, all languages are screwed up, just some more than others. :-)
When I was taking a Swedish class at Rice, the teacher showed us a little bit of the Danish language and its bizarre pronunciation idiosyncracies. Then he told us about a joke that the Swedes and Norwegians like to tell, which is that Danish isn't a language, it's a throat disease. :}
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Date: 2007-11-09 07:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-09 07:51 pm (UTC)Let's face it, all languages are screwed up, just some more than others. :-)
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Date: 2007-11-09 08:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-09 08:45 pm (UTC)So drive up to Denmark and find out! :-)
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Date: 2007-11-10 08:03 am (UTC)