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Yeah, Scandinavian is a dialect continuum with three (or I guess four?^[Nynorsk is a written standard without much of a spoken equivalent.]) Dachsprachen: simultaneously all three are close enough that they could be counted as one language (and sometimes are, I believe the Nordic Council does this), at the same time as all three languages have so much internal variation that you have to question whether there really are only three languages. Pronunciation especially can hinder spoken communication.

Either way, in this case it's slang and character name localizations, which can be a lot more variable between Danish, Swedish and Norwegian than things like the Swadesh 207. Norwegian does borrow a lot of slang from Swedish but not all of it catches on.


no-copyright {Cēterum|Furthermore} {cēnseō|I think} {iūs auctōris|copyright} {esse dēlendum|must be destroyed}.

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