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Re: [OT] Norsk nb/nn (was: Wishlist for woody+1)



On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 03:29:42PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> > The difference between them, is that like the difference between written
> > literary English and colloquial spoken English, or more like the difference
> > between traditional Chinese and simplified mainland Chinese (both written) ?
> 
> Not speaking a word of Norwegian, I can confidently <g> say that the
> difference between bokm?l and nynorsk is comparable to
> the difference between Slovak and Czech. Bigger than the difference
> between Croatian and Serbian.

Which is in turn more different than e.g. literary English and colloquial
English, or American vs. British English.

(just to chime in on the bloody flamewar note ;)

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