As an American in 2019, I can give you a hint.
Hahaha that’s too funny! *cries quietly to himself*
I’m worried about the consequences of that. The notion that we could have someone running a campaign to actively work against the institutional cornerstones of democracy is a bit scary.
I assume that’s just a normal British understandment.
It was fucking terrifying here, until we realized that Trump was really stupid and most of his staff was incompetent Now he is merely terrifying. Also, fatigue has set in so maybe we should still be fucking terrified.
The bad news for you all, is Boris is pretty damn smart and understands government. (Maybe not as smart as he thinks he is though.) The good news is that not everyone in the Conservative Party appears ready to follow Boris off the Dover cliffs.
When you compare the many things between Trumps GOP and Brexiter Tories it is at least, somewhat heartening that the percentage of “good” Tories prepared to take a stand agains Johnson and No Deal and even destroy their careers is above the number of their peers in the GOP.
As Johnsons brother said, the choice is between the national interest and his family and he even chose country over blood.
Aren’t koalas marsupials like kangaroos*?
*Whose name in English supposedly comes from when an English dude asked an aboriginal Australian “what is that called?” while pointing to the animal. Supposedly the answer that became the creature’s name meant “WTF are you saying?” or “I don’t understand.”
Most Danes used to be able to speak German, though these days the numbers are falling (somewhat weirdly, considering that Germany is of increasing importance to Danish economy). Blame the internet, which has ensconced English as the “only useful language” in the internet age.
English is ubiquitous, though. I work with an Australian who’s been living in Norway for 17 years. He still uses English for pretty much everything.
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America does not work like the UK. The American system is fundamentally based on checks and balances between co-equal branches. In the UK, Parliament is supreme and always gets what it wants.
Ha, guess I shouldn’t buy into linguistics lore peddled by Hollywood movies, even if it comes from the earnest-sounding (and fetching) Amy Adams.
@strategy My quip about the North Germanic vowels stems from my frustration at trying to make out any words at all while watching subtitled shows/movies in Danish/Swedish/Norwegian. As a native English speaker and speaking German passably well, I can make out quite a bit of spoken Dutch, but of course that’s because it’s a West Germanic language like English and German. On occasion, I’ll recognize a word in Swedish/Norwegian (based on the subtitles) as similar to a German word and think WTF happened to those vowels?
Anyway sorry to derail the thread. To bring it back to EU/Brexit, doesn’t Denmark, like Britain, still eschew the Euro?
I found, that I could read Danish a bit, but I had no idea what people were saying when I visited the country. It was really weird.
“dead regimes” - we’re now at the point where Conservative MPs who were in the running for leadership a few weeks ago are pointing out nascent fascism.
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And now we have a big name leaver jumping ship - from the cabinet, no less.
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The Tories are one big game of integrity limbo right now. Amber Rudd apparently has a shred left.
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@Papageno: Yep, Denmark has an exemption from the Euro. Though it seems like a mostly cosmetic thing, since the Danish interest rate is bound tightly to the Euro to avoid speculation against the currency (previously, it was bound tightly to the Deutsche Mark for the same reason).
Denmark has had a number of exceptions to EU rules, despite being a member. In practice, many of those exceptions seemed to result in Denmark following all the same laws and directives as all the other member states, but just being without influence in those questions where the public referendum had forced the politicians to craft an exception.
@legowarrior : Danish is one of those annoying languages were the spoken language often has little relation to its spelling. Not to mention that it’s just in general an amazingly odd (or terrible - depends on your viewpoint) language.
Off-topic, I know, but one can’t talk about the Danish language without linking the classical Norwegian sketch about it:
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That was my experience with Italy. I could read signs and stuff passably, but couldn’t understand a word.
That’s because I was halfway decent at French.
Sometimes it feels as if that is also the case for quite a few Danes…
