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Title: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Liep on April 22, 2015, 03:36:33 AM
Much debate about this as it's just weeks after the marking of the 75th anniversary of the German invasion.

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:yuk: :cry:
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Syt on April 22, 2015, 03:51:58 AM
There's been bilingual signs on the German side of the border since 2008:

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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. :)
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Syt on April 22, 2015, 03:54:02 AM
A cursory investigation shows that there's quite a few towns in S-H now with bilingual signs, mostly Frisian but also Low German. :unsure:
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Duque de Bragança on April 22, 2015, 03:56:02 AM
Danes need Flensborg to be Flensburg for cheap booze anyways. Much ado for nothing.
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Liep on April 22, 2015, 04:15:35 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on April 22, 2015, 03:56:02 AM
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.
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Monoriu on April 22, 2015, 04:17:19 AM
All of our road signs are bilingual, in both Chinese and English.  So are our official websites and documents. 
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Liep on April 22, 2015, 04:17:57 AM
Quote from: Syt on April 22, 2015, 03:51:58 AM
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. :P
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Duque de Bragança on April 22, 2015, 04:38:41 AM
Quote from: Liep on April 22, 2015, 04:15:35 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on April 22, 2015, 03:56:02 AM
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?
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Caliga on April 22, 2015, 06:43:53 AM
Quote from: Syt on April 22, 2015, 03:51:58 AM
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I'm sure that without that translation it was impossible for Danes to tell where they were. :sleep:
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 22, 2015, 06:50:18 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on April 22, 2015, 04:17:19 AM
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?
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Monoriu on April 22, 2015, 06:54:42 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 22, 2015, 06:50:18 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on April 22, 2015, 04:17:19 AM
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. 
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Jaron on April 22, 2015, 07:39:01 AM
So is that a yes or a no
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Monoriu on April 22, 2015, 08:00:11 AM
Quote from: Jaron on April 22, 2015, 07:39:01 AM
So is that a yes or a no

I would say yes  :)
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Razgovory on April 22, 2015, 08:57:01 AM
Having signs in Danish is a bit baffling.
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Liep on April 22, 2015, 09:14:07 AM
I just read that the mayor in Haderslev is named H.P. Geil, no wonder he's excited about the translation.
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: derspiess on April 22, 2015, 10:25:51 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 22, 2015, 06:43:53 AM
Quote from: Syt on April 22, 2015, 03:51:58 AM
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I'm sure that without that translation it was impossible for Danes to tell where they were. :sleep:

:lol:
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: KRonn on April 22, 2015, 12:52:53 PM
What, no signs in English, Spanish, French, Swedish and Arabic? You guys are so insular!   ;)
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: KRonn on April 22, 2015, 01:18:50 PM
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:
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: KRonn on April 22, 2015, 01:31:07 PM
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).   :)
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: jimmy olsen on April 22, 2015, 07:51:34 PM
All the road signs in Korea are in Hangul and English.
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Liep on April 26, 2015, 03:59:05 AM
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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Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: 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!
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Zanza on April 26, 2015, 05:08:39 AM
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:
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 26, 2015, 05:14:04 AM
Danish, Dutch, same thing.
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Syt on April 28, 2015, 08:18:44 AM
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:

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The papers in Schleswig-Holstein joke that Danes are known to have problems with hard consonants.
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Liep on April 28, 2015, 08:35:49 AM
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.
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Ed Anger on April 28, 2015, 08:55:29 AM
Official Smuttur sounds dirty.
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: Syt on April 28, 2015, 09:38:46 AM
The top women of Denmark and Germany.

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Also, the Danish parliament voted in favor of having a bridge from Fehmarn to Denmark.
Title: Re: Denmark gets its first bilingual town sign, uproar ensues
Post by: crazy canuck on April 28, 2015, 04:52:34 PM
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

:cheers: