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

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."

(My speech is Midland, not South Midland: more like Kansas than like the
rest of Oklahoma where I grew up.)

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'.

-- Mark

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