Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014)
by hvidgaard on Monday July 04, 2016 @03:22AM
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If the entire world spoke English, Spanish, or Chinese, we still wouldn't be able to understand each other. I live in Denmark, less than 6 million people, and I can pick two guys, put them in a room, and they would not be able to understand one another. They live less than 300 miles from eachother.
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Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014)
by iaskwhy on Monday July 04, 2016 @07:00AM
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You might be biased without knowing it because Danish is one of those languages with lots of dialects in such a small region. I only know this because my girlfriend used to live in Copenhagen and couldn't understand most people outside of the capital. Maybe most countries don't share so many dialects, I'm sure mine (Portugal) doesn't, it's pretty easy to understand most people here with the exception of the Azores Islands.