[Magdalen] Copenhagen.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

"What language are you speaking?" I asked.

"Icelandic," she answered coldly.

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 3:19 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
>
> In a message dated 5/4/2016 3:08:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> michaudme at gmail.com writes:
>
> Wheras  ...
> my travels through Sweden and Norway convinced me
> that those  languages sound like Danish
> spoken by brutish  trolls>>>>>>>>
>
> Depends on what dialect/accent the speaker uses.  There are the
> three varieties of Norwegian, for instance.  When I pressed my
> relatives in the Oslo area about my mother's Norwegian, they said,
> politely, that she sounded like a country bumpkin.
>
> There is that characteristic "lilt" (for want of a better term) to  both
> Swedish and Norwegian that is minimal in Danish.
>
> I was once standing in line to get into "Mary's" Restaurant (the
> one where MTM is seen sitting at a balcony table overlooking the  IDS
> Courtyard).  The two couples ahead of me were chatting in a  vaguely
> familiar language, and when my curiosity got the better of me I
> asked them (in English) what language they were speaking.  The
> answer:  Icelandic.
>
>
>
> David Strang.
>
>
>
>
> :-D
>