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

I had to find temporary accommodation in May in a hurry, and wound up in the
bedsit.  One of the others there asked me where I came from, and when I said
"Tauranga" in the North Island, he said, "But where do you _really_ come
from?"

I've no idea just where he pictured me as coming from.

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:15, you wrote:
> Had a strange experience on the train this morning; I went to the train
> hostess to buy new tickets, and, of course, addressed her in Swedish. Yet,
> she replied in English, and continued to use it for a few more turns before
> switching over to Swedish in the face of me stubbornly sticking to the
> same. She spoke English with a clear Swedish accent, so I can only assume
> she thought I was a foreigner and tried to be helpful.
>
> 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?
>
>                                                    Andreas
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