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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
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   Julian Bradfield  spoke these staves:   
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   > On 2012-05-10, Troels Forchhammer    
   > wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Oh -- and I'm sorry if I come across as preaching: my own kids   
   >> are thoroughly fed up with hearing their father go on about how   
   >> they can easily understand Swedish if they just make an effort,   
   >   
   > That way round is easy...mapping heard Swedish on to the written   
   > language is fairly easy, and then the differences are small.   
      
   While I'm sure your description is entirely correct, I doubt that it   
   has much influence on how well we understand the spoken language. Few   
   Danes have any idea how Swedish is spelled and vice versa, so the   
   mapping of the sounds to the spelling is, I would say, at best of very   
   little practical use when speaking with each other.   
      
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   Troels Forchhammer   
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