My mother is from Norway and my father from Germany. Naturally they learned each other's language. They live in Germany.
When my father had business partners from Norway over he was delighted to impress them with his linguistic prowess. During a coffee break he went over to them, listened for a bit and then joined the conversation. They couldn't understand a single word he said because my mother is from Mosjøn and he only learned her dialect.
Mosjøen is among the Northern Norwegian dialects. It's quite different from that of, for example Oslo. But once you start to learn northern norwegian, you probably understand many other regions as well.
Source: I'm northern norwegian. My mother is also from Mosjøen, coincidentally.
Also, why have I tagged you as "doesn't like the plague" ?
I love this skit so god damn much.
all the scandinavian languages are just 5000 dialects in three trenchcoats
Even Saami?
That's the 3rd trenchcoat
10km apart? They might as well be in a queue.
E vettafan ke du slit me. Dekkji så vanskele.
EDIT: Out of curiosity I fed the above into ChatGPT, asking of its meaning and origin, providing no context. It was actually translated correctly. I did not expect that.
Yeah, one place LLMs really shine is translation. They do a really good attempt at getting context and nuance across, not just literal translation.
So many dialects that there are even multiple "standardized" forms
