Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues

Started by Liep, April 22, 2015, 03:36:33 AM

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derspiess

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KRonn

What, no signs in English, Spanish, French, Swedish and Arabic? You guys are so insular!   ;)

Valmy

Quote from: KRonn on April 22, 2015, 12:52:53 PM
What, no signs in English, Spanish, French, Swedish and Arabic? You guys are so insular!   ;)

Flensburg
Flensburgo
Flensbourg
Flensborg
فلنسبورغ
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KRonn

Quote from: Valmy on April 22, 2015, 12:56:30 PM
Quote from: KRonn on April 22, 2015, 12:52:53 PM
What, no signs in English, Spanish, French, Swedish and Arabic? You guys are so insular!   ;)

Flensburg
Flensburgo
Flensbourg
Flensborg
فلنسبورغ

  Very cool!  :cool:

Valmy

I have done all the hard work. I expect Flensburg to update their sign accordingly  :P
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

KRonn

Quote from: Valmy on April 22, 2015, 01:27:19 PM
I have done all the hard work. I expect Flensburg to update their sign accordingly  :P

And you should get the royalties on all signs made with your Copyright (V).   :)

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Liep

Angry Jutes took it on themselves to get rid of this abomination, although they forgot to also hide it after they pulled it up from the ground. :hmm:

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Liep

Mayor H.P. Geil says that they won't bother putting it up again. The unilinguals have won!
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

Zanza

Quote from: Liep on April 26, 2015, 05:04:40 AM
Mayor H.P. Geil says that they won't bother putting it up again. The unilinguals have won!
Vee haff vays of making you put up Deutsch signs.  :menace:

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Syt

Read an article today that the Danish paper Ekstra Bladet wrote an article about Angela Merkel's visit in Denmark, and managed to spell her name Mergel through the whole article:



The papers in Schleswig-Holstein joke that Danes are known to have problems with hard consonants.
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Liep

I don't think that article is serious though. I can only read the quotes on my iPhone but they're ridiculous and so is the headline. Besides, Ekstra Bladet isn't really a newspaper.
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

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Syt

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Also, the Danish parliament voted in favor of having a bridge from Fehmarn to Denmark.
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