[Magdalen] Copenhagen.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Danish sounds a lot like German, but it just makes no sense to speak of to
my German ears.  My wife was at a needlework shop and suddenly she realized
she understood a conversation quite well.  "Golly, I am getting the hang of
this!!" she thought.  Then she realized that the customer was a tourist
from someplace like Luebeck, and they were actually speaking German.  The
Danes speak German, just as they speak English, French, etc., etc. "We know
you cannot ever master our language, so just let us speak yours," I have
heard from numerous folks, including my (former) sister-in-law (before she
did her Glen Close impersonation, phew!).

I was delighted and grateful that nobody made a big thing about our nutty
putative president at that time.  It was a really embarrassing time to be
from the USA and not be able to claim Canadian citizenship!



James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> Indeed it is a wonderful Copenhagen.  Danny Kaye said the  obvious.
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> Incidentally, the ...hagen with the soft "a" is the pronunciation  the
> Germans use, and the Danes don't like it.
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> They would rather have foreigners use a long "a" instead (or so I've  been
> told).
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> David Strang.
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