Re: OT (slightly): Tech support from Gutenburg

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:46:00 -0400, Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...>
> wrote:
>
>>I found this riotously funny!
>>
>>The Helpdesk has to explain how to use 'The Book'.
>>http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/introducing-the-book-p1.php
>>
>>--larry
>
> That was hilarious :)
>
> ObLinguistics:
> Which language was that? Danish or Norwegian? At least the correspondance
> between the actual pronunciation and the orthography wasn't particularly
> high ... hell, do they speak fast! At I found it funny that there was
> quite a
> number of congnates compared to German, so that I could understand bits of
> the (Norwegian|Danish) subtitles without reading the English ones, but I
> didn't
> understand any familiar word in speech.
>
> Yours,
> Carsten
>
I wouldn't be surprised between the lack of correspondence, as the
subtitles were in Danish and the speech Norwegian :)

-Simen