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Languages are weird (lemmy.world)
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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 74 points 10 months ago

Went to a pub in Iceland. English brother-in-law had been living there a while, trying to learn some basic Icelandic.

He orders the drinks, slowly, trying to remember the words as he goes. Finishes the order. Looks at the barman.

"Sorry mate, I dunno what you're saying", he replies in an Australian accent.

[-] zerofk@lemm.ee 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Buying beer from a man in Iceland

He was six-foot-four and full of muscle

I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"

And he just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich

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