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Re: [Pen-l] Thoughts provoked by the Platypus

Jim Devine
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:24:36 -0700

Danish should be eaten, not spoken.
-- Homer Simpson (apochryphal).

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Anthony D'Costa
<promothesdco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you can't read Japanese then you don't know how Japanese sounds.  If you
> can read Danish you don't know how it sounds.  Try putting a potato in your
> gullet and speak the language.  It's that hard.  It's not grammar or the
> vocabulary.
>
> Been there, done that, and failed like so many others before me:)
>
> Cheers, Anthony
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:45 AM, j.martin.pedersen
> <m.peder...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Just to be factual-ish: Danish is like German, Dutch and English. If you
>> know two of those you can read some Danish and begin to follow
>> conversations. Pronounciations are odd and some of them difficult to for
>> foreigners to ever get right, but it is essentially just another
>> Northern European dialect.
>>
>> On 30/08/10 23:09, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>> > btw -- that sounds like a challenge! But I'm going to plead "beginning
>> > of
>> > the semester." :)
>> >
>> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Anthony D'Costa
>> > <promothesdco...@gmail.com>wrote:
>> >
>> >> Try learning Danish and see how far you get:)  Japanese is easier.
>> >>
>> >> Anthony
>> >>
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>> >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Jeffrey Fisher
>> >> <jeff.jfis...@gmail.com>wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> WITBD, Carrol? Honestly, at this point, Denmark sounds pretty good to
>> >>> me.
>> >>> I've always wanted to learn Danish.
>> >>>
>> >>> /me goes to sign up for Danish RosettaStone
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Carrol Cox <cb...@ilstu.edu> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Lou has an unhealthy interest in political trash. It prevents him
>> >>>> from
>> >>>> pausing to think seriously about WITBD.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Carrol
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> Asia Research Centre
> Copenhagen Business School
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> Fax: +45 3815 2500
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way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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