Denmark wanted America to say this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkvqJJvR9U because Danes love to make foreigners say it.
All the other Nordic countries joke that Danish sounds like Swedes talking with a potato or porridge in their mouths, while Danes joke that Swedes sound like drunk Danes, and Norwegians sound like drunk Danes singing.
You need to research more about México.
Is a beautiful country, full of traditions and history, not everything is related to usa.
I'm sure you'll find it very interesting.
Greetings from México ^^
I always thought Swedish sounds more like singing. And Norwegian sounds so flat. But I know that feeling, all Germans I met always said, Swiss-German sounds like having a throat disease. XD
@OneSwissMore Don't get me wrong, I love schwiizerdütsch and love speaking it. But well, us romands think that swiss-german sounds like you have some rocks in your mouth while speaking, because of all the /ch/ sounds xD
@Tibochapo Hahahaha, don't worry, I already heard that! XD And I kinda see why... It really is harsh, right? So, you have the permission to keep on saying that! ^^
@OneSwissMore It's a hell of a language to learn. I learned it pretty quickly once I knew how to change words from high german, but yeah the basis took me a bit to learn.
On the counterpart, french has more exceptions than rules... I guess we can call it even
@Tibochapo Oh wow, you LEARNED Swiss-German!? ^^ How does that work? How's the pronunciation for you? I think that French is really smooth and soft. Swiss-German on the contrary is ... just the opposite. I love it, but sometimes, I really just stand there and listen to the people around me and try to hear this language like a foreigner. And it often made me laugh. ^^ It has funny pronunciations, hard consonants and many /ch/s, just plainly interesting for me!
Oh yeah, French with its many Grammar rules and even more exceptions of their own rules made many of my classmates go crazy! XD I still love it. So hard and so fascinating at once, you really are lucky to grow up with it! ^^
@OneSwissMore Yep, I did LEARN it !
How it works ? Well, determination, I guess ? I wanted to, bc I thought it was fun, and so I started to join FB groups, read swiss-german things, and listen to music with the lyrics in SG. And I mean, once you know the basis of words, SG is a pretty easy language...
Pronounciation is quite easy, now. All those /ch/s never bothered me really, there are more complicated sounds in french, so I guess that's that ^^
And as you said, SG is a really funny language, that's why I wanted to learn it ! (And since I'm not bound to any dialect, I can switch between many and mix them up ! And that's the best, esp. when zürcher cringe when talk like a berner )
They made German infiltrators say "Scheveningen" in WWII here in the Netherlands . If they pronounced it like Sheveningen (I have to use the English pronunciation here) the resistance knew they were Nazis.
for us brits, it's fucking amazing to get foreigners to say llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch which is an actual welsh village XD
@Xemunal Didn't they change the name just so they could say they have the longest name, though. In everyday vernacular everybody just calls it Llanfair from what I remember.
@Xemunal It reminds me of the story of the elderly couple who once visited Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoc. He stood under the raiways sign, and she photographed him, she stood under the sign, and he photographed her, and they got a japanese tourist to photograph them both. By then they had practically done everything that could be done there. But they wondered how it was pronounced, with the welsh spelling and all. So they went out for some food, and asked the blonde waitress:"Excuse me, but how do you pronounce the name of this place? And please do it slowly, se we get all the difficult syllables" So the waitress nods, lean forward and enounciates clearly and slowly: BUR-GER-KING
@potatoe4life Either that or this is a reference to the Arkham Asylum of a border we have between us and Mexico. As in, it's super easily crossed, then you're put back over the border, where you then just hop back over.
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Even the fish is laughing on the 2nd panel : D