QUOTE(Mike H @ Mon 8th March 2010, 9:35am)
Now I don't have a faux-Danish speaker to speak Danish with. (IMG:
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Du kan alltid snakke med meg! (IMG:
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QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Mon 8th March 2010, 6:35pm)
So he's going to be endlessly doing this, and as he gets good at it, the only thing the rest of us who don't have access to his UK IP feed will have, is certain personality quirks he can't hide, plus a rather unusual delay and rather unusually short answers. Like "The Mailbox."
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For most of us here who are not native English speakers; I can say that getting to know/ imitating another nationality/language is far more difficult than you think. It is not only about correct language/grammar, but more about attitudes, expressions.
Example: Tricky Cyclists sentence above here: "Yes I am proud to speak Danish correctly."...is a dead give-away. No
native Dane would write/say a thing like that! (Hint: the wrong word is "proud")