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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by SpicyLemonZest on Saturday September 26, 2026 @08:14PM (#49861918)
If English, German, Swedish, etc. shared a single prestige form, which all educated speakers understand and use for formal purposes, I think it would be reasonable and common to call them dialects of "Germanic".
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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by LtWorf on Sunday September 27, 2026 @03:27AM (#49864233)
Anyway what he really really glossed over is that "Arabic" (or the Arabic languages as would be more correct) speakers will also speak Swedish.

At the same time it is very unlikely that the English speaker will learn Swedish, so English speakers are more of a threat to Swedish than Arabic speakers.

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