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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I like it!
I'm a little leary of talking about accents because my Danish ex-girlfriend was very sensitive about her accent. She insisted she didn't have one, and her speech was very clear, but she would say things like, "Build a fire in the wooden stove."
I was in Denmark with her family once, at a table with about 8 people and 3 English speakers. They got into a discussion about language and ask me if i didn't think Dutch was the ugliest language. I said it sounded just like Danish to me. MY GOD were they pissed! You would have thought I had stabbed Queen Margrethe!
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My wife grew up in Purto Rico and thinks in spanish and sometimes does a verbatim translation of the words not the meaning to English. "Go move the beans". So I go to the stove, move the pot of beans off the burner, turn off the burner, sit back down. She really meant "go stir the beans" ...