[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wiktionary-l] English orthographies

Mark Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 17:19:57 UTC 2005


The point, though, is that that these words are much more common --
"ikke" and "ikkje" will show up much more often in a random text
sample than "color" and "colour".

Mark

On 21/09/05, Pawe³ Dembowski <fallout at lexx.eu.org> wrote:
> > In addition to massive (rather than minor) orthographic differences,
> > Bokmål and Nynorsk have very different grammars (some examples: the
> > word "I" is "Jeg" in Bokmål and "Eg" in Nynorsk, the word "not" is
> > "ikke" in Bokmål and "ikkje" in Nynorsk, even the word "Norway" is
> > "Norge" in Bokmål and "Noreg" in Nynorsk.)
>
> Well, that's a vocabulary difference, not a grammar difference. But I
> believe you that there are also some grammar differences :), although
> the examples you gave look pretty minor to me, like color/colour...
>
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