{"id":13609,"date":"2011-07-04T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2011-07-04T20:42:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T19:42:14","slug":"charlottes-danish-accent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/charlottes-danish-accent-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte's Danish accent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the errors Danes often make when speaking English is to say warm<\/i> when they mean hot<\/i> (this is caused by Danish having only one word, varm<\/i>, that covers both meanings).<\/p>\n

My stepdaughter, Charlotte, who is 11 years old and has lived with me since she was 6, claims she doesn’t speak a word of Danish, but it’s often apparent that she definitely has an excellent understanding of spoken Danish, even if she tries to hide it. For instance, if I offer some sweets to the three wee ones (who I only ever speak Danish to), Charlotte will instantly ask for some, too.<\/p>\n

However, Charlotte has now twice within a few weeks used warm<\/i> instead of hot<\/i>. For instance, today she told Phyllis that it had been “very warm in Saarbr\u00fccken”.<\/p>\n

I can’t think of any good reason why she should be using warm<\/i> instead of hot<\/i> apart from influence from Danish, so I can only conclude that Charlotte is now speaking English with a Danish accent!<\/p>\n

I’m sure she’ll be horrified and do her best to undo the damage, so I don’t think I’ll tell her just yet… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ice cream Originally uploaded by PhylB One of the errors Danes often make when speaking English is to say warm when they mean hot (this is caused by Danish having only one word, varm, that covers both meanings). My stepdaughter, Charlotte, who is 11 years old and has lived with me since she was 6, claims she doesn’t speak a word of Danish, but it’s often apparent that she definitely has an excellent understanding of spoken Danish, even if she tries to hide it. For instance, if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,159,115,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-da","category-en","category-kids","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}