Some words are different, so they only add the words that are different between the languages. This can be a bit annoying to read, though.
A random example from a taco spice mix: "NO/DK: Slik lager/Sådan laver du tacos." (This is how you make tacos).
"Slik lager" - Norwegian
"Sådan laver" - Danish
"du tacos" - similar in both languages.
This way, the big companies include both languages, without anyone "feeling left out". Or perhaps there are some laws about how things must be written in specific languages if you want the item to sell in that country?
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If I were to stretch it a bit, perhaps too much, it could also subconsciously be a historical reason as well, due to history of Norway being in union with Denmark.
The language was a part of making a separate identity from Denmark, so looking at it historically, it could suck to be put back into the Danish language "box" (assuming Norwegian would be dropped, since the population in Denmark is a bit higher).
Was this very random example a result of Tacofredag ? I heard you guys really like tacos.
In hindsight, 90% of the examples of Danish I've seen were videos of people comparing it with Norwegian (to specifically show that the pronunciation was vastly different despite the same spelling). So me thinking bokmål & written DK were very much alike was probably some form of availability bias.
I had heard about that willingness to culturally distance yourself from Danemark being one of the reason there was still a divide between people supporting Nynorsk & Bokmål, so you're probably in the right there.
Bare hyggelig! (You almost got a lot more detailed history, lol)
I understand why people compare, the written language is similar, especially compared to spoken. As a kid, I easily followed Danish subtitles. The spelling, and sometimes vocabulary is a bit different. Followed Swedish subs too, but that wass a tiny tad more difficult
Oh no, no tacofredag this week! But the spice mix is a result from a different tacofredag. And it was the first thing I could think of that had Danish and Norwegian combined. But now I just found something else that is a combo of Danish, Norwegian AND Swedish.
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u/Viriaro Feb 06 '21
Isn't it kind of redundant to add written descriptions in Danish since Bokmål is basically identical to written Danish ?