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beano
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 Message 41 of 74
23 October 2013 at 9:55am | IP Logged 
I think TV can have a huge influence. Not so long ago, regional accents and dialects were rarely heard on British TV, now they are everywhere. On several occasions as a child, I remember going on holiday to other parts of Britain and hardly understanding anything that the locals said. If I was a kid now, I think I'd cope a lot better because I would have had some prior exposure.
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Solfrid Cristin
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 Message 42 of 74
23 October 2013 at 10:04am | IP Logged 
Hah! Tell that to someone who grew up with "Emmerdale Farm" :-) In the beginning, when I was young it felt
like it was barely English. After a while I hardly even noticed.
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montmorency
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 Message 43 of 74
23 October 2013 at 10:41am | IP Logged 
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
Hah! Tell that to someone who grew up with "Emmerdale Farm" :-
) In the beginning, when I was young it felt
like it was barely English. After a while I hardly even noticed.


Not to mention:

Coronation Street (Manchester/Salford), since the 1960s
Crossroads (Birmingham), started 1960s, ran for decades
Auf Wiedersehen Pet: Geordie + other regional accents
Brookside: Liverpool: ran for many years
(various other Liverpool-based drama, comedy)
Steptoe and Son (and others): Cockney.
Rab C Nesbit, very broad Scottish.
etc, etc.

However, I think what he was referring to was announcers and presenters, etc.
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tricoteuse
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 Message 44 of 74
23 October 2013 at 8:34pm | IP Logged 
eyðimörk wrote:

This may be a product of WHERE and WHEN I grew up in Sweden, but until the advent of
digital television I always had access to Danish television (multiple channels), and
for most of that time I also had access to Norwegian television (single channel). In
fact, when TV3 was launched we got the same channel in all three languages.


Did you grow up in the south? ;) (Anything below Sundsvall counts as the south for me.)
We had SVT 1/2 and TV4 for like... ever. Then TV3, Femman, ZTV and MTV, and I think
that's pretty much it.

jeff_lindqvist wrote:

Huh? I've never had access to Danish or Norwegian TV channels, but I remember watching
children's programs in both languages (on SVT) when I was a kid. A while ago, I thought
we got more input when I was young, but a few months ago when I leafed through the TV
guide, there was hardly a day without a show/series/movie/life style program in either
of the languages (on both SVT1 and SVT2). Some days, we had half a dozen (!) programs
from Danmark, Norway and Finland.


The mention of SVT may be key here, I can't say I watched either one very much, except
as a very small child, but then I never saw anything other than Sweidsh programs. But,
my mother watched and still watches a lot of TV, and she always followed the Danish
serials. I have never seen a Norwegian serial though. These last years Norwegian
serials have obviously improved in quality, so I wouldn't be surprised to see more of
them now (if it weren't for the fact that I don't have time to watch TV). Not to
mention that there's been tons of more contact between Norway and Sweden with half of
my generation moving here for at least some time :P They even had to import Skavlan...
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stelingo
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 Message 45 of 74
23 October 2013 at 8:59pm | IP Logged 
montmorency wrote:
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
Hah! Tell that to someone who grew up with "Emmerdale Farm" :-
) In the beginning, when I was young it felt
like it was barely English. After a while I hardly even noticed.


Not to mention:

Coronation Street (Manchester/Salford), since the 1960s
Crossroads (Birmingham), started 1960s, ran for decades
Auf Wiedersehen Pet: Geordie + other regional accents
Brookside: Liverpool: ran for many years
(various other Liverpool-based drama, comedy)
Steptoe and Son (and others): Cockney.
Rab C Nesbit, very broad Scottish.
etc, etc.

However, I think what he was referring to was announcers and presenters, etc.


Don't forget Ant and Dec.
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eyðimörk
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 Message 46 of 74
23 October 2013 at 10:09pm | IP Logged 
tricoteuse wrote:
Did you grow up in the south? ;) (Anything below Sundsvall counts as the south for me.)

Why, yes, I did. (...and anything north of Växjö counts as The Great White North to me, so we're even) ;)
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montmorency
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 Message 47 of 74
24 October 2013 at 12:22am | IP Logged 
stelingo wrote:
montmorency wrote:
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
Hah! Tell that to
someone who grew up with "Emmerdale Farm" :-
) In the beginning, when I was young it felt
like it was barely English. After a while I hardly even noticed.


Not to mention:

Coronation Street (Manchester/Salford), since the 1960s
Crossroads (Birmingham), started 1960s, ran for decades
Auf Wiedersehen Pet: Geordie + other regional accents
Brookside: Liverpool: ran for many years
(various other Liverpool-based drama, comedy)
Steptoe and Son (and others): Cockney.
Rab C Nesbit, very broad Scottish.
etc, etc.

However, I think what he was referring to was announcers and presenters, etc.


Don't forget Ant and Dec.


Why aye mon!

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Medulin
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 Message 48 of 74
27 October 2013 at 7:45pm | IP Logged 
''Mange seier faktisk at findlandssvensk er det lettaste språket i Norden å forstå, fordi dei har så klår uttale.''
seier Heidi Lønne Grønseth, skuleansvarleg i Foreningen Norden.

http://framtida.no/articles/ikkje-gje-opp-a-snakke-norsk#.Um 1efVMucjN


Mini Dictionary: http://miniordbok.org/

VERD
verd /verda er heile jorda/
verden /verden er hele jorden/
verden /verden er alle lande på jorden/
värld /världen är alla länder på jordklotet/


Do you think of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian is easy?
• Danish youth: 43.3% (Swedish) and 53.9% (Norwegian)
• Swedish adolescents: 33.5% (Danish) and 58.4% (Norwegian)
• Norwegian adolescents: 35.5% (Danish) and 77.4% (Swedish)

Source: Aftenposten.no

Edited by Medulin on 27 October 2013 at 8:04pm



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