Re: Trip report: the route to the Midnight sun (or not)
- From: Des Small <des.small@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Aug 2005 10:06:36 +0100
DDT Filled Mormons <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> writes:
> Once I tried to use the local phrase for "Do you speak english" in
> Norway (snakker du engelsk, or something), and they just replied
> "Sorry, I don't understand, do you speak English?".
About the only thing I could say in Norwegian back in 2000 when I went
there was "Jeg snækker ikke norsk". It was sufficiently intelligible
that it wasn't always believed, which is no more than such performative
oxymoronism deserved, I suppose.
Des
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