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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Sep-2018 06:28:52 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   @ralph Well, the subtitles are kind of hard to not look at, so what they're saying makes sense when you see them. The guy in the hat spoke his accent 100% and it's weird but mostly the vowels. The bearded guy kind of toned it down a little to a more urban Central Norway accent, until he made the phone call, at which point he became incomprehensible to me, and it was actually easier to understand the guy in the hat.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Sep-2018 06:32:27 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      @ralph My sister once dated a guy from Central Norway and when he casually spoke to me, I always had to ask him to say it again, and he'd slow down, and I'd understand him. These accents are, in many respects, more different from one another than Stockholm Swedish is to Oslo Norwegian. Oh, and I mean dialect, not accent. But, I mean, Scots, people call that an "incomprehensible accent", but that's definitely a dialect (or separate language, some would argue).