What's wrong with Denmark?

Poststructural Pub
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I was listening to some geezer on the radio this weekend as I was twiddling the dial. I caught him saying: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” before I got bored and stuck a McGoldrick CD on.

But it’s been bugging me ever since. What’s up with Denmark?

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Never mind.

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The line is a quote from Hamlet, and I think it’s used as an idiom now. In idiomatic use, I always gathered it to be a reference to something unpleasant and as yet (partially?) unidentified. No actual relation to Denmark.

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I thought Denmark was a lovely place. And the people are lovely too - at least all the ones i met were.

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Ah, don’t get me started on Denmark :laughing:

Nah, just kidding, it’s a nice country with nice people. They speak very funny, I’d try to explain but for fear of upsetting some of our neigbours to the south who happen to be members here I’ll refrain from doing that :slight_smile:
I’m sure they think we speak very strange as well.

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They have some great football players… :stuck_out_tongue:


Slan,
D.

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So do we Slan :imp:

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Never mind.

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Okay, I can’t resist saying this anymore. Danish is what you get if you put a raw potato in your mouth and try to speak Swedish :stuck_out_tongue:

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What would you get if you cooked the potato?

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Norwegian?

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You would get Skåne dialect which is the southernmost part of Sweden, we commonly refer to them as half-Danes :smiley:

13

I’ve heard of that before.

14

Well, it is common knowledge :stuck_out_tongue:

15

Shh.

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No but really, that’s great, I bet ya not many americans know that.

I’m surprised that no angry fellow scandinavians or swedes from the southern parts have showed up here yet. I know of a few on this board.