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by downsplat 890 days ago
Such a tantalizing article... come on, where are the examples? It's like reading a description of a painting without being shown a picture! What are some of these vulgar urban words that the RiksmÄl elites didn't want their children to be taught? What are some of these rural dialectal words that were kept optional but fell out of even moderate Nynorsk? More than a few readers of a chapter-length history of the Norwegian language might have some familiarity with Scandinavian, and the rest of us can handle a few words in italics!