On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 04:00:03PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Adam: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 03:03:57PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > > > Also, don't sweat the language thing. Especially in the > > > Netherlands where everyone seems to speak English with breathtaking > > > acuity, you'd have zero problem. Walking around Glasgow, you might find > > > the brogue bewildering, but in Amsterdam? Never. > > > > There are worse cases. There's a place called "London", where a sign says > > "Sloane Square" yet the station announcement (by a person paid to have clear > > diction) says "Ten Ske". > > > > So people in, say, Stockholm, bother to learn English, people in London > > don't. > > No, we don't learn english here, we learn a mixture of english and > swedish called swinglish :)
But at least svangelska is understandable (at least to a person from an European country). It seems like the language can completely differ even by the next street. For example, in Charlottesville (US) people at the university spoke in a way that's completely fine for me, yet a short way away I needed the fine point&grunt technique to communicate. But it can go worse. When I was 18, I wore long hair yet had no beard. 22 years ago no man in the US had long hair -- unlike the Europe where it wasn't widespread but at least not an oddity, I don't recall seeing _anyone_ at all with long hair. So in Atlanta, in a public toilet, a guy insisted in Ebonics that it's the toilet for men. I didn't manage to explain... Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Ivan was a wordly man: born in St. Petersburg, raised in ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Petrograd, lived most of his life in Leningrad, then returned ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ to the city of his birth to die. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng