Re: CHAT: Being taken for a furriner ...

Quoting "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>:

> Andreas Johansson said:
> >
> > I've been taken for a foreigner before, but that's always involved me
> > speaking
> > in a foreign language. Possibly, my recent one-year stay in Germany has
> > left
> > some mark on my Swedish, but the whole incident nonetheless seems somewhat
> > extraordinary to me.
> >
> > Anyone else here experienced something similar?
>
>
> Are you kidding?
>
> I live in *Texas*. You know, the place where Chuck Norris is always right
> behind you, ready to pounce if you get caught doing anything Untexan.
> "Y'ain't f'm 'round here, are ya."
Well, at least they didn't reply to you in Spanish.

(OK, I suppose the idea that all furriners speak Spanish is not as common in the
'States as that that all speak English is in Sweden. But it's not all our own
fault I guess - yesterday night I met yet another of those foreign students who
go to Sweden in order to improve their English. Freaking freaks!)

> Of course, it was no better when I was living in Bavaria. The locals saw
> me as a Preiss, if not a Saupreiss. They generally didn't know I wasn't
> German, otherwise I'd've probably been a 'Saupreiss, ameriganischer'.
Probably.

Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:

> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:54:24 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?q?Steven=20Williams?=
> <feurieaux@...> wrote:
> >He used articles with proper names, which I find
> >awesomely cool, if a bit comical. I'd use them myself,
> >if I felt brave enough.
>
> In German, that is? It's considered to be a southern regionalism, and maybe
> northern speakers consider it to be vulgar.
Where'd you draw the South-North border for this purpose? Articles with proper
names was very common in Aix-la-Chapelle, in students' speech at least. I went
from an occasional to a habitual user of it there.

                                                     Der Andreas