It goes like this:EER wrote:Then they told me a story about Danish people, Swedish and potatoes. And one about Norwegian people, a lot of alcohol and singing. I can't exactly recall the details, but I'm pretty sure that the gist was that everything is kind of mutually intelligible, as long as there are potatoes and/or hard liquor involved.
Danish sounds like you're speaking Swedish with a potato in your mouth.
Swedish sounds like you're speaking Danish without the potato, but while you're extremely drunk.
Norwegian sounds like you're singing in Swedish.
There was a Scandinavia And The World comic about that once, but I can't be arsed finding it.
BTW Dutch sounds like you're speaking Danish while suffering from an awful, debilitating throat disease.