Roskilde....a city outside Copenhagen where the kings and queens are laid to rest in the cathedral and which only a few years ago celebrated its 1000 year birthday, is also the home to a yearly rock festival, one of the many off springs of the original Woodstock rock festival.
Today in one of the local papers I read, there was a video report from the festival, explaining how one could find a place to sleep even though one did not have any money to buy a tent or other cover. I was curious. I watched the video. I am still curious.
Something has happened to the spoken Danish since I left the country. I listened and I didn't understand, and it was not just the mumblings made famous by challenged actors in films...no, this went deeper to a more profound not-understanding.
I am 66 years old. I left Denmark when I was 22, so I spent a third of my life speaking the language which, as I sit here now, sounds so very foreign to me.
Is it, perchance, that the guys interviewed spoke what could be called "Ghetto Danish " ?..
I don't know anymore.
As far as I am concerned, the queen speaks the way I think Danish should be spoken.
Anything else is just not up to snuff.
Or something.
2 comments:
The Danish you know has changed, a lot. If it's not in writing i guess you'll never understand the modern danish after all theese years. Please send a link to what you saw, and i'll translate.
so now you know how I feel about the decline the english language once used in the US, the one once spoken by Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable etc.
when I watch US series, I am astounded at the bad grammer, wrong word usage and simple mas muttering which seems to make out the US english of today...
oh well, "progress" I am sure our parents and our grandparents didn't feel any differntly
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