(September 14, 2012 at 4:36 am)Puddleglum Wrote: But Swedes understand Norwegians and they are classed as languages. There is no clear line.
No it's the same as a southern Englishman speaking to a northern Englishman. Thats how much Limburgs is the same to Dutch. They just have some different words and a dialect. Where Frisian has a different word for every other word. And there is a pretty clear line between Norwegian and Swedish. Most Dutch understand and/or speak German, it's because we're neighbours. Same with Swe and NW. This is probably the reason why most English don't speak another language. Because you don't realy have "neighbours" exept for the Welsh that speak another language. Even if they do they still speak English anyway. And probably because almost every other country around England speaks English because it's an easy language to learn.
