[matsemann]

I'm from a dialect speaking part of Norway (Hallingdal), and my peers and I would speak like Oslo (so closer to bokmål) together. But they would always speak in dialect with teachers, their parents etc. My parents are foreigners, so I then never picked up on speaking the dialect myself. But it's still a shock to have a conversation with them, and how they suddenly switch when picking up the phone or whatever.

Not entirely sure why they switch. Was it to "be cool" with friends? Or to suck it a bit up to authority figures?

[Tor3]

I never change my dialect when I travel in Norway, for any reason, as long as the one I'm speaking to is native. But some people are extremely sensitive to how others speak, and may unconsciously (and some consciously) try to mimic the one they're speaking with. In the past though there was some discrimination going on. In Oslo you could find advertisements for apartments, for example, with the text "no northeners please". That's only sixty-seventy years back. People moving to Oslo from elsewhere would then try to change their dialect. Despicable times. Before my time though. There's nothing of that anymore, or, if there are any individuals around who actually thinks one dialect has more prestige than another.. the vast majority will ignore them, just as they ignore other morons (for lack of a better word)