Olden day talk, did they really say that?

[Ricardodaforce]

Though they may just be each speaking his own lingo since "the languages of the Scandinavian countries, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, ... are mutually intelligible" according to Wikepedia, like Spanish and Italian.

Spanish and Italian? Lots of common looking words, but they sound so different. I speak Spanish but could not follow an Italian conversation and I doubt many Spaniards could. If you'd said Spanish and Catalan (even though it's technically closer to French) I'd be more likely to agree.

 

[jonbeeza]

A lot of Swedes have a slight American twang for some reason.. They also swear a lot in normal conversation. Well the ones I've met do!

I had a very deep and meaningful conversation with Snowy Shaw, a famous Swedish musician about this subject at silly o clock in the morning on a tour bus as we were travelling between shows...

I can't rememeber any of it mind.

I have many a meaningful conversation with my missus, I usually deny it the next day lol

 

[OldCarlos]

A lot of Swedes have a slight American twang for some reason.. They also swear a lot in normal conversation. Well the ones I've met do!

I had a very deep and meaningful conversation with Snowy Shaw, a famous Swedish musician about this subject at silly o clock in the morning on a tour bus as we were travelling between shows...

I can't rememeber any of it mind.

You should have been concentrating on your driving, not fraternising with your passengers!

 

[TCR4x4]

You should have been concentrating on your driving, not fraternising with your passengers!

Boom boom.

I wasnt the driver for a change.. Set builder, photographer and general roadie.. Much higher class!

 

[OldCarlos]

Boom boom.

I wasnt the driver for a change.. Set builder, photographer and general roadie.. Much higher class!

Haha. I did presume you were probably more involved.



(in a platonic way of course)

 

[big soft moose]

Not to mention all the Danes are also speaking English...

It's a program, not real.

that - they are trying to capture the essence of the way they spoke not a literal translation (if you read the cornwell books on which this is based it is in tune with the way he writes)

Likewise if you look at antony riches roman books ( wounds of honour, arrows of fury etc) he has his centurions and legionaries talking and swearing like squadies and seargants would today, but his tribunes and the equestrian order speaking the queens english to capture the spirit of the difference not the literal