Norwegian Language

[Halsten Aastebol]

I have to publicly apologize for my previous mail where I commented on Rob 
Klein's message about country speech and so on.

I did not at all intend to criticize Rob Klein, and I was definitely not 
offended by his message. Nor do I think anybody else was. Unfortunately I 
seem to have given that impression.

My intention was to be a little self-ironic on behalf of us Norwegians 
because we are so over sensitive with respect to dialects and the two 
official languages. This situation leads to some rather ridiculous 
consequences. Though, like I said, it has become much better over the years.

Kind regards
Halsten


At 15:12 25.02.02 +0000, Rob Klein wrote:
>I apologise to any Norwegians who were offended by my attempt to make an
>analogy to the use of American simple speech and national slang.  I did not
>intend to imply that the regional dialects in Norway were "simple or 
>uneducated
>speech".  I only implied that IF "worldly" and "educated" folk in Oslo 
>WERE TO
>be prejudiced in considering language spoken by isolated, rural folk in 
>remote
>areas "simple", that that would be analogous to the situation in USA before
>1950 (or so).  I knew that there are no uneducated folk to have simple speech
>in the regional dialects; and I also knew that there is no national Norwegion
>slang.  That is also why I didn't mention Norway when I used the analogy 
>of "a
>lazy or more free Hochdeutsch. I was only trying to make the US situation
>understandable.  I guess I should have used Verwegistan (Farwaystan) for my
>analogy.
>
>I would NEVER say anything deliberately to hurt or put someone down.
>Hej, hej, og hilsen,
>
>Rob Klein
>
>
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