Lars Henrik Mathiesen skrev:

> Daniel:
> > (The book is called _Språkets enhet och mångfald_ 'The unity and
> > multitude of language' but goes under the name _Språkets månghet och
> > enfald_ (switching _mång_ and _en_) which changes the meaning into
> > something like 'The multicity and stupidity of language'. :)

> "Plurality and simplicity of language" would seem to capture the
> Swedish meaning pretty well, as far as I understand it.

Well, _enfald_ nowadays carry only the meaning 'stupidity'.
_månghet_ isn't a real word, it could have been, but my feel of
Swedish tells me that you can't attach the derivational suffix
_-het_ to _mång_.

> > Yep yep. I have it bookmarked. Nice to see you spell "Linguist" with a
> > capital L. Though in the Good Old Biblical Days it was probably spelled
> > "LINguist" comparable only to "JESus" and "GOD". :)

> You Swedes have always exaggerated you holiness. In Denmark, it was
> only JEsus and GUd HErren. (This was back when all Danish nouns were
> capitalized on the German pattern, so a bit of extra effort was felt
> to be warranted in those special cases).

I had a teacher in Economics (political) who sometimes spelled Urban
Bäckström (the Swedish counterpart to Greenspan) URBan BÄCkström. He
was a man of true irony.

Daniel

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