Conflict between the Swedes and their various neighbours between 1670s and 1721. Including topics on Danes, Saxons, Saxon-Polish, Russians and anyone else the boys in blue were mixing it with!
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by Gunfreak » Mon Sep 04, 2017 8:43 pm
The skånske accent is quite easy to understand. (At least the one they use on tv)
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by janner » Wed Sep 06, 2017 4:13 pm
Gunfreak wrote:The skånske accent is quite easy to understand. (At least the one they use on tv)
Agreed, although when in Kbh they tend towards shouting slowly in skånske, which is less helpful
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by Gunfreak » Wed Sep 06, 2017 6:25 pm
janner wrote:Gunfreak wrote:The skånske accent is quite easy to understand. (At least the one they use on tv)
Agreed, although when in Kbh they tend towards shouting slowly in skånske, which is less helpful
The original universal translator. Say things louder and slower. I don't understand Chinese at all. But I understand slow and loud Chinese perfectly.
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by Gunfreak » Sun Nov 19, 2017 6:47 pm
I've restarted on the book.
A few interesting tidbits.
1 Danish cavalry attacked cold steel at a galopp. Not at a trot with firing of pistols first. This includes the dragoons.
2. Both swedish and Danish grenadiers still used grenades in open battles( I thought the grenades had been relegated to seige and other assaults.
3. Danes and swedes had "rendekuler" musketballs split in 4 to be used at close range.
4. Swedish infantry attack at Helsingborg involved a more protracted firefight then standard Swedish gå på doctrine.
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by janner » Tue Nov 21, 2017 4:41 pm
Number 1 is interesting given that evidence supports Danish horse closing with pistols and then charging home with swords in Ireland 20 years earlier.
The book is supposedly en route, but then so is Christmas!
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by Gunfreak » Tue Nov 21, 2017 5:34 pm
janner wrote:Number 1 is interesting given that evidence supports Danish horse closing with pistols and then charging home with swords in Ireland 20 years earlier.
The book is supposedly en route, but then so is Christmas!
I think the official doctrine was still to do that. But quite a few Danish officers high and low had served under Marlborough. So I'm uneducated guess is they simply picked it up form Anglo-Dutch cavalry. That had stared attacking with cold steel before the Spanish succession.
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by Lovstrom » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:04 pm
Truls, The accent that remind me most of Skånska in Norway is Sogndaling.
If one understand Sogndaling one should have no problem understanding Skåning.
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by Gunfreak » Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:07 pm
Swedish is generally easier to understand than many norwegian dialects.
Swedish is also easier to read than Danish by far.