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Rather off-topic, I was surprised by how readable this was to someone who doesn't speak a lick of Danish (me):

> Robinsonlisten er opkaldt efter Robinson Crusoe, som er en fiktiv person, der optræder i romanen Robinson Crusoe af Daniel Defoe. Han strander på en øde ø og lever isoleret.

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True but if a Danish person was to read this to you you would not even recognize the individual words...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk

EDIT: Just FYI this is a clip from a Norwegian comedy program. Danish and Norwegian have very similar written languages but sound very different when spoken. In reality with some practice Danes, Swedes and Norwegians can speak together and understand one another.

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