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1. sazius on Mayfirst (saziusmayfirst@social.mayfirst.org)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 13:11:33 UTC sazius on Mayfirst

   • Mikael
   @inscius Finlandssvenska är arkaiskt. Vi talar den *riktiga* ursprungliga svenskan ;-)
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.
   • Mikael (inscius@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 13:22:14 UTC Mikael

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     @sazius  Omg, the whole culture is duffer!!  ;-)
     Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) and Temporary Marjolein repeated this.
   • sazius on Mayfirst (saziusmayfirst@social.mayfirst.org)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 15:06:47 UTC sazius on Mayfirst

     • Mikael
     @inscius Yep, you're confusing me :-)
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 16:20:25 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • Mikael
     @inscius @sazius Yep, Finland is like a Swedish linguistic gene bank. :-)
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 16:22:49 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     @sazius ha! I can understand that completely - as opposed to non-archaic Swedish :)
   • sazius on Mayfirst (saziusmayfirst@social.mayfirst.org)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 18:29:05 UTC sazius on Mayfirst

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     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     • Mikael
     @clacke @inscius I've heard that Quebec French is similar in that it retains some archaic words. Could be related to being a somewhat isolated language area.
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 18:40:05 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     @sazius the same happened in South Africa: the Boers were mostly from what is now Zeeland province in the Netherlands, and retained a lot of the characteristics of their dialect in what has become Afrikaans
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 18:40:51 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     • Temporary Marjolein
     • Languages of the World
     @mk !language
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 18:44:11 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     • Languages of the World
     @sazius you'll also find this in the type of German still spoken by the "Pensylvania Dutch" people in teh USA (where "Dutch" is a mangled "Deutsch" meaning German - not dutch!): a small group in isolation mostly keeps their language characteristics, unlike the place of origin which has more outside infuences and keeps evolving. !language
   • sazius on Mayfirst (saziusmayfirst@social.mayfirst.org)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2015 19:02:19 UTC sazius on Mayfirst

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     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     • Temporary Marjolein
     • Mikael
     @mk @inscius @clacke Yeah, seems to be a common phenomena. Although Finland-Swedish isn't that isolated, at least my grand parents often watch Sweden-Swedish television :-)