No no. The Icelanders got the whole "Learn danish so that you can speak to all the scandis" thing just right. Cause Ari speaking "danish" just sounds like a mix between norwegian and swedish anyways, so mission accomplished.
Sometimes it's hard for me to know the difference between Swedish and Norwegian but the bit about the high pitch is so true, and is what I use to know the difference !
@@Aethuviel Well, I haven't gotten around to learn any Norwegian (yet - I do know a wee bit of Swedish and started to learn Finnish about six years ago). But as Sisu, the big one of my two toms is ~50% Maine Coon and - wait for it - ~50% Norwegian Forest cat (and yes, he's as fucking huge as you might expect), I'd like to be able to chat with him in the language his ancestors may have been able to meow fluently. :-)
Yep. I'm a German native speaker from Austria who dabbles in learning Finnish for about six years, but as far as I can tell, he absolutely nailed it. :-) (I'd even go as far to say that at least he got the dry Finnish humour part down pat.)
Anybody could give me a translation for "Framsognardanska"? I could infer that it is some kind of "Danish" from the "-danska" at the end (well, duh), but I'm at a complete loss with the rest. I sadly don't speak any Nordic language except about 3-5 words in Finnish (and probably might manage to sound _very_ remotely Finnish after a having consumed a significant enough amount of Russian antifreeze.)
I.e. "not being understood by any other Nordic people on an advanced level"? :-) (Okay, that would also be true for the Finns.) DISCLAIMER: I have to admit that I don't speak from personal experience but only inferred that from this very performance of Ari Eldjárn. :-)
Yeah, it's just called that. We know how to read and write it. It's just hard to pronounce it since it's a fairly odd way of pronouncing the words. I guess it's similar to how the Finns learns swedish I guess...
+Gunnar A > I guess it's similar to how the Finns learns swedish I guess... Or Austrians and Germans English... (I'm Austrian, BTW, but I was lucky to learn how to also _speak_ it well.)
There used to be a political party in Iceland called "Framsóknarflokkurinn" ('fram-sókn' ≈ forward-seeking, 'flokkur'≈party), which is politically in the centre, but had its followers mainly in the rural areas dominated by farmers. I think the term 'Framsóknardanska´ has its origin as a derogatory word for the kind of Scandinavian muddle talked by politicians on official business who had had their schooling in the rural areas and which is basically grammatically correct Danish but nearly completely spoken with Icelandic pronounciation.
+matssss > Finnish sounds like Estonian Yep, same language family called the Finno-Ugric languages (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages), which for some strange reason also includes Hungarian (don't ask). :-)
