Re: Trip report: the route to the Midnight sun (or not)

Des Small <des.small@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Maybe you were talking to one of my Stril cousins, and they expected "eg
snakker ikkje norsk!" :)

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