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Interesting! Is it at all comparable to how Scandinavians can read each other’s languages but most have a hard time understanding the spoken languages?
by stefanfisk 8y ago
Interesting! Is it at all comparable to how Scandinavians can read each other’s languages but most have a hard time understanding the spoken languages?
- barry-cotter 8y agoMuch more divergent, less like Danish and Bokmal (Dano-Norwegian) or Swedish than French and Romanian. But Romanians write in French which they can translate on the fly into Romanian as they read though a very different form of Romanian than what people speak. And written Romanian is used for scripts, songs, transcripts and under a 100 novels. French is Mandarin, Romanian is Cantonese. None of the other topolects have a standard written form that’s used much.
- cbnotfromthere 8y ago"And written Romanian is used for scripts, songs, transcripts and under a 100 novels" You meant that there are only less than 100 novels written in Romanian? If yes, that's one of the most absurd claims I've read in my life.
- barry-cotter 8y agoI meant it as an analogy where Romanian is Cantonese and French is Mandarin. I’m not certain there are less than 100 novels in Cantonese but I’d happily bet 2% of my net worth on it. The Chinese language page for written Cantonese[1] lists one author and his English language Wikipedia page doesn’t mention his writing. Irish is a dying language and it both has more written in it and a more active literary scene. [1]https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=2&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=zh-CN&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25E7%25B2%25B5%25E8%25AA%259E%25E7%2599%25BD%25E8%25A9%25B1%25E6%2596%2587&xid=17259,15700022,15700186,15700191,15700248&usg=ALkJrhiITIl9kFmfsp6lXmBF8tK5IwtPQA https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=2&...