The Swedish-speaking fishermen on the west coast of Finland could well speak non-Linear B proto-greek, for all I know. My Swedish is limited, but it was gobbledegook. My Swedish-speaking friend chatted amicably with Åke at the wheel of his boat when he took us to an island an hour away. That is a one hour conversation. I asked my friend ashore what he had been talking about with the fisherman and he said "I don't know, I couldn't understand a word."

You can't be me, I'm taken