Norway has a lot of Pakistani refugees (you should corner one at 7/11s in Oslo) who seem to only speak Norwegian or Urdu (or very broken English). I did not think it was familiar, just seemed slightly more guttural.
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Sidin Sunny Vadukut <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone here who speaks both an Indian language and a Scandinavian one? I was > in Norway recently, and something about the way they speak seemed very very > similar to the Indic languages. I couldn't put my finger on it. Wikipedia > gives me the notion that it could be the fact that it is a pitch accent > language. > This had me wondering if perhaps such a similarity, if it exists, it might > make Scandinavian languages easier to learn for an Indian. Or is there such > a thing as propensity to learn one language if you know another? > I need to get some sleep now. > Good night, > Sidin/Amit/Rahul > > On Thursday, 19 May 2011 at 18:57, Lahar Appaiah wrote: > > No mail from Sidin for 24 hours. He's probably left the group by now after > seeing this thread. > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Ingrid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As P J O' Rourke put it: The Democrats are the party that says government > will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your > lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then > they get elected and prove it. > > Versus Karl Rove: As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - > unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there > can be too much of a good thing. > - Ingrid > > P.S. Welcome, Sidin. > > >
