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0 pointsdcminter2y ago0 comments

> Nordic languages (Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish)

Do you have a citation for that? I know some Swedish and often need to read documents in it and I don't get the impression that it's any more compact than English.

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euroderf2y ago

Any Estonian will tell you that Finnish is similar to Estonian except that it takes twice as long to say anything.

dcminterOP2y ago

Finnish is not remotely similar to Swedish, and it's Swedish that I'm skeptical about.

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