omgwtfDANISH
18 Jan 2007 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimorenethe guest lecturer on denmark, the faro islands and iceland... is from denmark. OH MY GOD. that lecture was so traumatic. i'm whimpering. it feels like the inside of my brain itches really strongly. i want to stab myself in the head with an icepick.
it's like the equivalent, for a regular american english speaker like me, of listening to someone speaking a really dense scottish dialect... with a marked american tennessee-appalachian accent.
i understood something like seventy to ninety percent of everything, practically down to the smallest unit of meaning - sometimes down to the syllable, which means i also never quite understood anything, but i had to concentrate hard enough to hurt myself and still, occasionally, lose the thread - and then find myself shockingly adrift and with no idea where i was in the speech. the powerpoint handout was in danish too, which meant everybody in the class (native speakers of swedish included) had to concentrate too hard on listening to be able to effectively read along, let alone well enough to take notes.
ow.
(eta: wax says "he wasn't speaking danish, baby. then you wouldn't have understood anything." "what if he was speaking danish slowly and trying his hardest to imitate a finland-swedish accent...?" "then he was speaking scandinavian." okay, he was speaking scandinavian. or something. with way more danish vocabulary than it logically should have.)
it's like the equivalent, for a regular american english speaker like me, of listening to someone speaking a really dense scottish dialect... with a marked american tennessee-appalachian accent.
i understood something like seventy to ninety percent of everything, practically down to the smallest unit of meaning - sometimes down to the syllable, which means i also never quite understood anything, but i had to concentrate hard enough to hurt myself and still, occasionally, lose the thread - and then find myself shockingly adrift and with no idea where i was in the speech. the powerpoint handout was in danish too, which meant everybody in the class (native speakers of swedish included) had to concentrate too hard on listening to be able to effectively read along, let alone well enough to take notes.
ow.
(eta: wax says "he wasn't speaking danish, baby. then you wouldn't have understood anything." "what if he was speaking danish slowly and trying his hardest to imitate a finland-swedish accent...?" "then he was speaking scandinavian." okay, he was speaking scandinavian. or something. with way more danish vocabulary than it logically should have.)
