Re: Hello to you all!
| From: | Jonathan Knibb <jonathan_knibb@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 2, 2002, 12:53 |
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Kala Tunu wrote:
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Europeans who are so proud and happy that you try and speak their language
whatever your level : Germans, Spaniards, Italians.
[flamewarette omitted]
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and Frank George Valoczy wrote:
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What I have found on my travels. The Icelanders are amazed that anyone
bothered to learn their language, the Swedes similarly. [...]
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Hmmm ... from my own experience, I'd say that yes, the Swedes are *amazed*
that anyone (and an Englishman!) bothered to learn their language - but
*impressed*?...
Sample dialogue:
JK: Jag talar lite Svenska.
Sv: You speak Swedish?!? (allows brief flicker of mixed amazement and
amusement) Ah. (returns to impassive Swedishness for remainder of
conversation)
förlåt mig :))
Jonathan.
'O dear white children casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages...'
W. H. Auden, 'Hymn to St. Cecilia'
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