Re: CHAT: cultural interpretation [was Re: THEORY: language and the brain]
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 2:30 |
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>This does vary, though. Southerners are more risk-averse
>than Northerners, which is one reason the stereotype of
>Northerners in the South is of rude boorishness, however unfair
>that might be.
Well, yes and no. My fav take on this comes from a personal experience my
partner, I and a Danish exchange student had in 1987 at a Ben & Jerry's ice
cream shop in Atlanta. Bjarne, our exchange student, was trying to decide on
a flavor...
Server: Do you know what you want?
Bjrane: No, not yet.
Server ::gasp:: ::eyes wide:: You're not from around here!
Bjrane: No.
Server: Where're you from?
Bjarna: I'm from Denmark.
Server ::gasp:: Do they speak English there?
Bjrane: No, they speak Danish.
Server: Do you speak English?
Bjarne: Yes.
Server: Well, let me ask you: are they free there?
Bjarne: Yes, and I'll have the strawberries-and-creme.
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