What language do Scandinavians speak when getting together for a beer in a pub?

[Wilderess]

Hello there, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Icelanders on Apolyton! If you’re together in a pub having a beer, one guy from every country, what is the language you use for communication? Is it Swedish? Or do you speak your own language each? Is it mongrel Scandinavish?

If you speak Swedish when there’s a Swede in the group, what language do you use when there are a Norwegian and a Dane present but no Swede?

Merry Christmas everyone everywhere.

[Ned]

Re: What language do Scandinavians speak when getting together for a beer in a pub?

Originally posted by Wilderess
Hello there, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Icelanders on Apolyton! If you’re together in a pub having a beer, one guy from every country, what is the language you use for communication? Is it Swedish? Or do you speak your own language each? Is it mongrel Scandinavish?

If you speak Swedish when there’s a Swede in the group, what language do you use when there are a Norwegian and a Dane present but no Swede?

Merry Christmas everyone everywhere.

In Minnesota, they speak English.

[Meticulous Man]

I'm not Scandinavian but I'd think they'd speak their own languages each, apart from Icelanders who would have to speak either English or Danish. Swedish isn't that big in Denmark and Norway.

[Henrik]

Each of us speak in our own language, they aren't that different...

[Stefu]

After enough drinks, they all speak Danish.

[Provost Harrison]

English of course, the one common language

[Solly]

I reckon there is more different between northern Welsh and southern Welsh than between Scandi languages.

[Footie Mad]

We all just growl and throw stuff at eachother in that good'ol scandi-way.

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Stefu
After enough drinks, they all speak Danish.

So true!

I never spoke to an Icelander, but usually when I speak with Danish people, they have to speak English or I won't understand what they are saying
Norwegian is usually easy to understand for a Swede, it's essentially the same language as Swedish.

[Footie Mad]

I have a real hard time understanding the northeners in Sweden but that might be because I live here in Skåne which has more connections to Denmark than the north.

[Al'Kimiya]

I can understand danish if it's subtitled, they sound like they have a potato or something stuck in their throat
Norwegian is easier to understand, although they all sound so perky and dashing that I'd prefer not to hear them at all...

[Inverse Icarus]

Re: Re: What language do Scandinavians speak when getting together for a beer in a pub?

Originally posted by Ned


In Minnesota, they speak English.

hail the melting pot!

[Gangerolf]

I can understand danish if it's subtitled, they sound like they have a potato or something stuck in their throat

Exactly. Must be genetic or something. It's not that hard for me to understand though, born and raised in Oslo were we basicly speak Danish with a Norwegian accent.

Norwegian is usually easy to understand for a Swede, it's essentially the same language as Swedish.

Don't know what kind of Norwegians you speak with but I think you would have serious problems understanding eg people from the west and the trondheim region. I know I have.

they all sound so perky and dashing that I'd prefer not to hear them at all...

[Provost Harrison]

So how does English sound to you lot, in terms of noise (you said Danish sounds like they have a potato stuck in their throat). I am just curious...

[The Mad Monk]

My reaction, on hearing a Swedish language teaching tape for the first time:

My god. They really do sound like the Swedish Chef!