Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 1 of 8 12 May 2011 at 3:59pm | IP Logged |
Sweden's Sexiest Dialect
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 3 of 8 12 May 2011 at 8:20pm | IP Logged |
Those polls pop up all the time. One year, my own Gotlandic won. Now, it wasn't even mentioned. I just can't believe that the Skåne-accent got bronze - not that I have any problems with it, but if it's one dialect that get bad comments, it's skånska.
"Don't let people from Skåne speak on national television! At least provide subtitles!"
Another thing, there isn't just one stockholmska, one skånska, and definitely not one "norrländska" (hey, half of Sweden is in Norrland!).
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slav Bilingual Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5006 days ago 43 posts - 54 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish
| Message 5 of 8 27 May 2011 at 8:14pm | IP Logged |
The sexiest Swedish accent is the one my boyfriend has, no doubt about it.
Also, what's so bad about skånska? Do they talk weird, unusual grammar, or... what?
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 6 of 8 28 May 2011 at 6:33pm | IP Logged |
Nothing bad in my opinion, it's but one of the many versions of Swedish. They have throat-rs (as do most from Småland, Bleking, Öland and Halland - nothing unique there), and they have a lot of diphthongs (as do my Gotlandic).
More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanian_dialects
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slav Bilingual Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5006 days ago 43 posts - 54 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish
| Message 7 of 8 31 May 2011 at 5:32pm | IP Logged |
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
Nothing bad in my opinion, it's but one of the many versions of Swedish. They have throat-rs (as do most from Småland, Bleking, Öland and Halland - nothing unique there), and they have a lot of diphthongs (as do my Gotlandic).
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Oh. THAT'S what every other Swedish person I know thinks sounds so bad? Wow. Maybe my Swedish isn't good enough to judge it. :P
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 8 of 8 31 May 2011 at 8:45pm | IP Logged |
The prosody is different too (or rather prosodies, since there isn't just one skånska), and those who don't like skånska might think it sounds Danish. First of all, that's simply not true, and secondly, skånska is sometimes regarded as the accent that Danes find most difficult to understand.
Oh, the humanity.
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