http://cac.ophony.org/2007/04/13/pikelets-crumpets-dialects-and-accents/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:00:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cac.ophony.org/2007/04/13/pikelets-crumpets-dialects-and-accents/comment-page-1/#comment-13513 Ryan Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:24:04 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/2007/04/13/pikelets-crumpets-dialects-and-accents/#comment-13513 The British project is fascinating. The Danish spoof reminded me of my time in Denmark in 1996 forabout 6 months. Though Danes did seems to be able to communicate perfectly well with one antoher, the language was extremely difficult -- Copenhagen is pronounced, for instance, roughly as "kubn-hadn". I won't even attempt to reproduce the sound of "Kierkegaard." And though I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, I actually dropped my Danish class after about a week because even in 1996 everyone in the country knew English pretty fluently. I took a film class instead. True to form as a lazy Ameriacn I guess. Hi hi (goodbye in Danish). The British project is fascinating. The Danish spoof reminded me of my time in Denmark in 1996 forabout 6 months. Though Danes did seems to be able to communicate perfectly well with one antoher, the language was extremely difficult — Copenhagen is pronounced, for instance, roughly as “kubn-hadn”. I won’t even attempt to reproduce the sound of “Kierkegaard.” And though I’m a bit embarrassed to admit it, I actually dropped my Danish class after about a week because even in 1996 everyone in the country knew English pretty fluently. I took a film class instead. True to form as a lazy Ameriacn I guess. Hi hi (goodbye in Danish).

]]> http://cac.ophony.org/2007/04/13/pikelets-crumpets-dialects-and-accents/comment-page-1/#comment-13411 Mikhail Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:35:37 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/2007/04/13/pikelets-crumpets-dialects-and-accents/#comment-13411 Um. Yeah. . . Not so sure what to say about that video. I suppose you need to know Danish to be in on the joke. It did remind me, if vaguely, of this Berlitz commercial: <center><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U3jF0XI3rBo"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U3jF0XI3rBo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object></center> Um. Yeah. . . Not so sure what to say about that video. I suppose you need to know Danish to be in on the joke. It did remind me, if vaguely, of this Berlitz commercial:

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