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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!RA.MSSTATE.EDU!MAYNOR
  3. Message-ID: <9301220038.AA18657@Ra.MsState.Edu>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:38:02 CST
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
  8. Subject:      Question for Torkel
  9. Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
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  12. Is it true that Danes and Swedes can understand Norwegian more easily than
  13. Norwegians can understand Danish or Swedish and that Danes can understand
  14. more Swedish than Swedes Danish?  If so, why?  Or is it a matter of Danes
  15. and Swedes claiming to understand more Norwegian than Norwegians claim
  16. about Danish or Swedish and that Danes claim to understand more Swedish
  17. than Swedes claim to understand Danish?  If so, why the claims?
  18.  
  19. (All of the above is talking about people who haven't formally studied
  20. the other languages, of course.)
  21.    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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