On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 04:00:03PM +0100, karl@??? wrote:
> Adam:
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 03:03:57PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> > > Also, don't sweat the language thing. Especially in the
> > > Netherlands where everyone seems to speak English with breathtaking
> > > acuity, you'd have zero problem. Walking around Glasgow, you might find
> > > the brogue bewildering, but in Amsterdam? Never.
> >
> > There are worse cases. There's a place called "London", where a sign says
> > "Sloane Square" yet the station announcement (by a person paid to have clear
> > diction) says "Ten Ske".
> >
> > So people in, say, Stockholm, bother to learn English, people in London
> > don't.
>
> No, we don't learn english here, we learn a mixture of english and
> swedish called swinglish :)

But at least svangelska is understandable (at least to a person from an
European country).

It seems like the language can completely differ even by the next street.
For example, in Charlottesville (US) people at the university spoke in a way
that's completely fine for me, yet a short way away I needed the fine
point&grunt technique to communicate.

But it can go worse. When I was 18, I wore long hair yet had no beard. 22
years ago no man in the US had long hair -- unlike the Europe where it
wasn't widespread but at least not an oddity, I don't recall seeing _anyone_
at all with long hair. So in Atlanta, in a public toilet, a guy insisted in
Ebonics that it's the toilet for men. I didn't manage to explain...


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