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Ever thought about going to Svalbard (which used to be called Spitzbergen)?

NO! I don't like cold weather
Weather forecasters sometimes still says spitzbergen instead of Svalbard, or at least they did some years back.

By the way, I live close to what's considered to be Norways oldest town. Do you know what it's called?

LOL...I didn't know it before I did some research.

But Tonsberg is Norway's oldest town; some say it was established about 900 AD.

What's fascinating, to me, is that Vikings didn't establish towns in the modern sense before then. I'll have to read up more on Tonsberg to find out why the town was established.

It's also fascinating that Swedish doesn't have the letter "O" with a line through it.

Are you able to understand Swedish at all? I heard that all Scandinavian languages are actually one language, and that Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish are dialects of that language. That Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish are only "languages" because of a sense of sovereignty.

He he, so then you learned something new today.

The letter "Ø" is pronounced like the sound you make when you pronounce the letter "U" in the English Word "burn". If you understand what I mean.

Yes, I think most Norwegians understand swedish perfectly. It's harder to understand Danish, or at least I think so.
I think that is quite common around the world that countries that border each other have similar languages?
There are many different dialects within the Norwegian Language which sounds quite different, and can even be harder to understand sometimes then swedish (but that depends on the swedish dialect)

I think, most of the time, countries that border each other have similar languages. But I can think of at least a couple that don't.

1. Hungary/Austria: Hungarian is not even closely related to German (Austria's language). It is not even a member of the Indo-European language group that German, English, Spanish, Hindi, Swedish, Norwegian, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian, are a member of)

2. Finland/Sweden: Finnish is very distantly related to Hungarian, and totally unrelated to Swedish.

How has your day been so far?

Wow, you know a lot about this!

Thank you for asking I have had a good day so far.
Now I'm going to stop posting on this forum for the rest of the day (hopefully) since it's time for my once a week alcohol consumption

Have a nice day/evening!