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Bij deze dank ik u voor het compliment over onze schitterende schone taal.

Thank you for the compliment about dutch!

 

No, translate it directly, it has lots of irony in it!

His original sentence was: "In this I thank you for the compliment on our beautiful wonderful language."

 

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Once I was hitch-hiking in UK. Near Birmingham one guy gave me a lift. I was heading to Scotland. He asked me "Goin' home?" I said "No"
"You're Scottish, aren't you?"
"No, I'm not"
"Ok, so Irish.."
"No, not at all"
"So where are you from?"
"Slovakia"
"You must be jokin'"
"No, really, I swear" I almost showed him my passport
"Sorry, you look like a Scotsman, even you have a Scottish accent..."
...it was the first time I was in UK...

 

bristol has got a strong acent and thats were im from and what sweetlavender said is totally true most of you can speak better english than me

 

When most people learn English as a second language, they learn it away from dialects. Dialects often pollute how well someone can speak a language. Slang and idiomatic language can creep into proper English and cause a lack of standards.
Another thing that I have noticed is that whenever I hear Germans speaking English, they sound American. Perhaps this is due to Movies, Music and television.

 

Thank God none of you has to listen to me speaking english.

 

Okay, we will. Hey Moonchild, that's really cool! I love to fake a Scottish accent because it sounds soooo cool... Other ones I can generate: southern, sometimes Australian, and posh English.

Funny htat you say this about learning a language away from its dialects. You see, in the northern part of Belgium, Flanders, the people speak Dutch too - much better than we do...

 

i often fake an irish accent because part of my blood line comes from ireland and also to joke about with my mates and i also do a welsh accent

 

I'm proud to be American!
I live in Norfolk, Va. East Coast of the U.S.A.
2 hours away from the capital of the Confederacy (in our Civil War), Richmond.
Largest naval base in the world is located a few miles from my home.

I take it have a fake Irish or Welsh accent is like having a fake Southern accent or having a fake Bostonian twang.
I love real accents. I have a girl friend in my class who came from Australia. It's so fun to talk to her because occasionally she slips up and has a big accent, and that's after close to 2 years here.

My parents speak dutch (from living 2 years in Belgium -dad was in the Navy-), my dad is pretty fleunt in french (w/american accent) b/c he majored in it in college and he lived a year in france in college.

 

Indeed. Isn't it fun? I can do a southerner too. I don't know of any Virginian accent though.

Cool! I'll bet you can't understand a word they're saying. It's fun to be able to speak a language that absolutely nobody can understand. IMO.

 

Anybody foreign who ever hears somebody from Liverpool or Newcastle speak will have some problems. Especially the real thick accents. I won't even mention Glasgow. :lol:

 

Well, I live in the largest "city" (Hampton Roads) which is actually a cluster of smaller cities, and they are so many out of state people that it is hard to find a native Norfolkian. So I don't think there is actually a Virginian accent around here. But I do know that out in the country they do have accents. Probably pretty close to the southern accent, except probably not as bad.
yeah, my parents used to talk in Dutch when they wanted to ask the other a question that we couldn't understand. But now they don't do it as much. The only word I know is the word for ice cream (usually b/c that's what they'd be asking each other after dinner)

 

Its great listening to my friends in high school speak spanglish, because they know little spanish. The pronounciation is absolutely terrible!

 

I woulden't even concider Virginia southern anymore. I'm a native New Yorker, and I was surprised that no one in Virginia spoke with a Southern accent.

You know why everybody speaks English? UK Imperialsim and American Industrial expansionism.

After all if you want to do business with the people that have the money it's a good idea to speak the language.

 

And because it's an easy language to learn, IMO. Much easier than Dutch in any case.

KKlover, I know that trick. My parents used to do that when they wanted to serve fries; they spelled it really quickly so we wouldn't overhear.
By the way, the Dutch word for ice cream sounds a lot like the English word.

 

I live in the sovereign state of North Carolina, which is on the Atlantic coast of the United States, for anyone interested in looking it up on a map. We're the third state north of Florida.

 

Ive visited my cousins there! Its absolutely beautiful!

 

No No No! Florida is the third state south of yours!

 

Groan! :kill:

 

And Stewie Griffin and I live in the state directly north of North Carolina. Corp lives practically in my backyard.