Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues

[Liep]

Much debate about this as it's just weeks after the marking of the 75th anniversary of the German invasion.

[Syt]

There's been bilingual signs on the German side of the border since 2008:



Also, the political party of the Danish minority is even exempt from the 5% hurdle in state elections in Schleswig-Holstein, so they always have one or two delegates there (and have been the ones tipping scales in one or the other direction during votes more than once).

So calm your titties, please.

[Syt]

A cursory investigation shows that there's quite a few towns in S-H now with bilingual signs, mostly Frisian but also Low German.

[Duque de Bragança]

Danes need Flensborg to be Flensburg for cheap booze anyways. Much ado for nothing.

[Liep]

Danes need Flensborg to be Flensburg for cheap booze anyways. Much ado for nothing.

Only the Jutes benefit from that so if Flensburg was Flensborg we'd get more money from those conservative tax avoiding bastards.

[Monoriu]

All of our road signs are bilingual, in both Chinese and English.  So are our official websites and documents. 

[Liep]

So calm your titties, please.

The biggest story in Denmark these last few days has been that Prince Henrik was too sick to attend the Queen's birthday party but was fine to fly to Venice the day after. So no, our titties will not be calmed when there's something to break the boredom of Danish news.

[Duque de Bragança]

Danes need Flensborg to be Flensburg for cheap booze anyways. Much ado for nothing.

Only the Jutes benefit from that so if Flensburg was Flensborg we'd get more money from those conservative tax avoiding bastards.

The return of the Eternal Jute. Why no Sweet Jute?

[Caliga]

I'm sure that without that translation it was impossible for Danes to tell where they were.

[Eddie Teach]

All of our road signs are bilingual, in both Chinese and English.  So are our official websites and documents.

Do Cantonese and Mandarin read the same?

[Monoriu]

All of our road signs are bilingual, in both Chinese and English.  So are our official websites and documents.

Do Cantonese and Mandarin read the same?

This is complicated.  The written language is supposed to be the same.  BUT, (1) HK and Mainland use different Chinese characters.  We use traditional, they use simplified.  This has nothing to do with Cantonese and Mandarin.  HK, Macau and Taiwan use traditional, even though Taiwan also speak Mandarin.  (2) The speaking and writing forms in Cantonese are different.  The way Cantonese speak can be written down as is, but this is "improper".  The "proper" way to write is supposedly the same as Mandarin, though a lot of people can't tell the difference between proper and improper written Chinese.  (3) the mainland love inventing new trendy Chinese terms.  HKers are much more conservative and stick to traditional terms.  Relatively speaking. 

[Jaron]

So is that a yes or a no

[Monoriu]

So is that a yes or a no

I would say yes 

[Razgovory]

Having signs in Danish is a bit baffling.

[Liep]

I just read that the mayor in Haderslev is named H.P. Geil, no wonder he's excited about the translation.