From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: Accents
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 10:18:40 GMT

Jesper Lauridsen (rorschak@daimi.aau.dk) wrote:
: 
:    On my remote control one can find a key used to promptly
: remove any sound from the TV set. I call that key the "
: Schlu"tter in english key" named after the local prime
: minister. Reason: all Danish politicians speaks miserable
: english with a very heavy Danish accent. A Danish accent
: is _not_ something to proud of - it sounds awful.
:    
:    I have now learned to accept that these midleaged 
: politicians can't speak anything but Danish. My hope
: was that younger people (like me) had better English
: skills. Then I saw an interview with Lars von Trier.
: Parts of a press conference was shown with him speaking
: English - this fine director, who has made exelent
: movies in English, had an accent just a horrible as
: that known from the representatives of the people.
: 
:    The final push was given by an interview with Michael
: Binzer, lead singer in D.A.D., a good band with English
: lyrics. His accent was ... lethal. This guy makes a 
: living singing in English and yet he speaks it so bad.
: 
:    Never in my many years on this planet have I had a
: conversation with someone only speaking English. I
: fear my accent. Perhaps I should decide never to leave
: the country and thus save myself from certain failure.
: 
:    My prison is 42000 km^2 big.
: -- 
:  _______________________ _________________________________
: | Jesper Lauridsen      |      Life is a spectator sport  | 
: | rorschak@daimi.aau.dk |     I think, therefore I angst  |
: |_______________________|_________________________________|


Hello Jesper,

If you want to speak English with an Englishman, then give me a call on
++44 628 794125 !

I have spoken to a few Danish people and their accent is lovely.  I like the
sound of Scandinavian English, it is very sexy in women (I am male) and in men
is also sexy and often has either a nice daftness or a pleasant ring of 
authority about it.

When I visited Denmark, I loved the place.  It was quiet, clean, tidy and very
pleasant.  The countryside (in Jutland) was a bit like England but without the
awful traffic.  The people were very friendly and nice and well spoken, even in
garages and small shops.  The only problem was that I arrived after 6pm and 
the place seemed closed!  I was looking for a petrol station  on the motorway 
for some petrol but there didn't seem to be any.  At a roadside cafe I got 
talking to a Dane who had noticed the British plates on my bike and I asked 
him about the lack of petrol stations and he said that they were situated off 
the motorway, you just had to follow the signs.  He also said that you needed
Danish paper money as they were automatic after 6ish.  I didn't have any as 
Beaureau de Change closed at 6, so this Dane gave me some money!  I tried to 
give him some English money but he refused it!  What a NICE man!

Sorry to rattle on like this but I did like Denmark and to hear someone 
pretending to have angst about their accent when speaking a second language is
just plain silly!  Most of us do not know a second language as we English
speakers are so f*cking superior that we never bother learning one!  I am 
taking French lessons for the umpteenth time but I seem to have an inbuilt
resistance to learning languages.  I spent a year in The Netherlands and only
picked up about fifty or so words and couldn't speak to a four year old child 
properly!  :(

I hope to visit Denmark again when I go to Sweden for the Motorcycle Grand 
Prix in September.


Heh heh

Nick (ja!)

Would you like to send me some of thise nice Danish videos?
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