Second Language vs Native Tongue

[intet_at_tabe]

I learned Danish, purely on a whim, and even though my Danish is basic, I can at least read newspapers ane communicate on a day to day basis. Technical Danish I cannot. However, learning Danish was about as useful to me as owning a chocolate teapot, as the Danes all speak English better than I speak Danish. Most vexing.

Contratrombone64 :grin::grin::grin::grin:

The Danish language is not that difficult, if you know how to prepare yourself and you have the wish for explicit Danish pronounciation.

Of course we do have the strange letters in the end of the alphabet like the " æ " - " ø " and " å ". Then obviously a Danish island translates: ø. - A Danish stream is: å. An apple equals "æble". You see quite logical. Why waste a lot of unnessesary letters to spell something as simple as this? :grin::grin::grin::grin:

Now for the mouth preparations for beginners. Remember the american actor Marlon Brando from the first movie on the Mafia trilogy. He knew the trick on how to learn Danish fast. Now I tell you guys for free, so you may practice this at home. You enter two small boiled potatoes (they still have to be very hot removed directly from the boiling water) into you mouth on each side, between your teeth and your cheek. Then you simply begin to speak, it does not have to be perfect danish, but having these hot potatoes in your mouth, it sounds Danish. Any real honest even sober dane will take you for one of our own. :lol::lol::lol::lol:

Remember pratice make a master!!

 

[intet_at_tabe]

I forgot to mention what is very important.

If you´re on a date later on in the evening, please remember to remove the potatoes from each side of your mouth before you smile welcome to her or him.

 

[Krummhorn]

This is great, Intet-at-tabe ... I've never heard that Brando story until now - and here all the time I thought he used cotton balls instead of the potatoes ... at least the potatoes taste better after the conversation is over ... .

 

[intet_at_tabe]

This is great, Intet-at-tabe ... I've never heard that Brando story until now - and here all the time I thought he used cotton balls instead of the potatoes ... at least the potatoes taste better after the conversation is over ... .

Mr. Krummhorn

I guess there´s a lot non of us really know or will ever know about Marlon Brando . Of course using cotton instead of hot potatoes, it can be done, but only when you´ve achieved the basics of the Danish language. Also with cotton it´s much faster to remove from the inside of your mouth, if your date want´s to kiss instead of saying: Hello - for introduction. Remember the boiling hot potatoes in this context can not be eaten and swallowed, but have to be put back into the box, where you keep your other aid for specific situations where you´re lost, mostly among the danes though.

Cotton have no hot temperature, while hot boiled potatoes also are very good, if you´re a bit shy of speaking in generel :grin::grin:. Sort of an aid .

But then Mr. Krummhorn - sir, you should have known all of this having ancient family relations back in the ole viking country .

 

[intet_at_tabe]

Hot boiling potatoes are also very good as an aid, if you for reasons unknown to you end up within a Danish police precint after a night on the town, being accused of something you definitely possitively know you haven´t done.

Throw them in the mouth and then you only have to whisper: No comprende!!

 

[Muza]

Oh ok, I thought those were for a sole purpose of throwing them at the police officers

 

[Contratrombone64]

intet-at-table - jeg forstaa du ikke!

 

[intet_at_tabe]

Oh ok, I thought those were for a sole purpose of throwing them at the police officers

Muza - You are here, there and everywhere, like good old The Beatles played it. You will notice, I wrote in the earlier post if you end up within a Danish Police pricint, which means inside the four walls. I promise you with my head in the guilliutine, not a good idea to throw anything whatsoever not cotten balls, not boiled potatoes, not masshed potatoes nor Æblegrød (apple porridge)and remember to be careful about the f. "finger". Not even prepared with a written declaration from your family doctor, that you just can´t controle it, will keep you safe, if the finger suddenly points straight up.

Not even the expressed "flattery will get you everywhere", by Corno Dolce. He knows, he used to jump the small ferry, visit Copenhagen from time to time to see his friends as Mr. John Smith You see, the swedish people, well, swedish men in generel LOVE and then LOVE again danish beer, Rød Aalborg (snaps) and Gold Tuborg (strong beer). Btw. Like the norwegians, the finnish and all people from Greenland. So the chances he´s alrady been there are likely. :grin::grin:

Ask him later to night, what the police serve for breakfast after the sauna and the manicure the next morning?

 

[Muza]

LOLS, aye aye cap'n - duly noted! :grin:

 

[Corno Dolce]

Hi Intet - Hi Muza,

Yes, I've made the trip to Copenhagen many a time but have stayed there at least a week everytime I went. No, never have seen the inside of a Danish Police cellblock - I don't belong to that crowd who seem to enjoy being roughed up by the local Constabulatory. No, I don't know what they serve for breakfast. But I do know that the Swedish Authorities will put a little emetica in Wines, Spirits and Beers that are sold to the public. This is done so that people won't die from binge drinking. The emetica will cause you to throw-up and feel miserable.

Cheers,

CD

 

[intet_at_tabe]

Hi Intet - Hi Muza,

Yes, I've made the trip to Copenhagen many a time but have stayed there at least a week everytime I went. No, never have seen the inside of a Danish Police cellblock - I don't belong to that crowd who seem to enjoy being roughed up by the local Constabulatory. No, I don't know what they serve for breakfast. But I do know that the Swedish Authorities will put a little emetica in Wines, Spirits and Beers that are sold to the public. This is done so that people won't die from binge drinking. The emetica will cause you to throw-up and feel miserable.

Cheers,

CD

Corno Dolce

Didn´t mean to give your past away , I just figured perhaps you would know being a grown up man, a swede who has explored the world for many a year. We´re not alowed to smoke in a bar anymore, indicating many bars will have to turn the key. Not that I care, I don´t smoke or enjoy bars in generel. I believe the last statistics on smokers said that only about 27% of the gigantic population of close to 5 million people still smoke. The danish government has managed to make people think of the risks of cancer.

Can the swedish government from a legal point of view according to swedish law actually decide this for the nation, to enter the emetica in alcohol -just like that? But then it tells a lot about the abuse of alcohol in Sweden in generel and the health of the population specificly.

I can only say it will definitely incease the sales of beers and snaps in Denmark. I guess to Tuborg and Carlsberg´s serious strategies in marketing have worked :grin::grin:. That´s why we let you win in soccer from time to time

Is there perhaps the slightest possibility that the reason you don´t recall any breakfast, sauna and manicure with the police in Copenhagen that you just can´t recall. It has been known that too many cold - whatever, decrease the memory, sorry Corno Dolce. But you had me weep all day yesterday.

But I believe you meistro.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Hello Intet,

Are you trying to infer that I have had unwilling contact with the Danish Police? :shake::banghead: My only contact with the Danish Police was when I asked an officer how to get from Kastrup to Valby so that I could see and play the pipe organ built by the great French master organbuilder Cavaille-Coll at the Jesuskirken.

It is the only Cavaille-Coll organ in Scandinavia. Maybe it is your piquant Danish humour which I still don't understand - remember, you're speaking to a local dullard who is so trusting of other people - so much so that I can sometimes be taken advantage of for my kindness to others.

Cheers,

CD

 

[intet_at_tabe]

Hello Intet,

Are you trying to infer that I have had unwilling contact with the Danish Police? :shake::banghead: My only contact with the Danish Police was when I asked an officer how to get from Kastrup to Valby so that I could visit the only pipe organ built by the great French master organbuilder Cavaille-Coll at the Jesuskirken.

It is the only Cavaille-Coll organ in Scandinavia. Maybe it is your piquant Danish humour which I still don't understand - remember, you're speaking to a local dullard who is so trusting of other people - so much so that I can sometimes be taken advantage of for my kindness to others.

Cheers,

CD

No advantage at all Corno Dolce.

Just being silly :grin::grin::grin::grin: many of your countrymen though have personal relations with the Danish police. It ends here laddy.

 

[Muza]

Wow, this has gone from discussing language to discussing Danish police in a split second, lols. Now thats the human tendency to randomly drift off that I have mentioned before.... :crazy:

Good thing it never happens to me though ...*lalala, butterflies and unicorns*

 

[Corno Dolce]

Hello Muza,

"Butterflies and Unicorns"??? Now you have gotten me really confused -

Cheers,

CD

 

[NEB]

Not me - I'm in Lala-land this evening as well!....

 

[methodistgirl]

Via Con Dios! I like some spanish sayings like May God Bless. Madisonville
has mostly black and white people not that many who are Mexican or any
other and I think there is one lady from Finland.
judy tooley

 

[Muza]

Hi Corno,

The butturflies and unicorns was just my mind slowly drifting away :grin:
NEB got it

 

[NEB]

Well, I got it coz I'm having a 'senior' day today! I don't think I've been with anything quite all day, so Lala-land is about right for me...

 

[hawkan2580]

hawkan - you're spending far too much time hanging about with "Kath 'n' Kims" ...

more like Shaza and Baza & Charmaine