Why so similar? 🤯

Do you speak both?
@BarbossasHusband

@XenonRush yeah, they're very similar. Kinda like north states vs south states.

Can you understand Swedish too?
@BarbossasHusband

@XenonRush most of it, yeah. And written Danish (but not spoken)

I have been told the joke Scandinavians always say, is that Danish sound like they are speaking with a potato in their mouth?
@BarbossasHusband

@XenonRush absolutely true

Have you been to Denmark?
@BarbossasHusband

@XenonRush not since I was a baby

Do you eat lutefisk?
@BarbossasHusband

@XenonRush no, I don't like it

So, you've tried it?
@BarbossasHusband

@XenonRush yeah, it's served every december 26th

@BarbossasHusband Does anyone really speak nynorsk? Most people I know speak the dialect of the place they grew up in or, in the case of immigrants lived, while learning Norwegian.

My children hated having nynorsk lessons because pretty much no one living around Oslo fjord speaks and certainly doesn't write, anything like it. When a family from rural Trøndelag moved in the class could hardly understand a word that the new student said, nynorsk was no help at all.

@ninalanyon it's all dialect, you're right. But some sound more like nynorsk than others. Bergen and Hardanger for example.

@BarbossasHusband Bergensk only has common gender and neuter unlike both bokmål and nynorsk which have masculine, feminine, and neuter. Gender is one of the hardest things for me to get right when speaking Norwegian, having only two would be easier!