Totally agree, but you really never know where would be insulated from everything

I mean surely in the 1930s Hawaii felt like an excellent place to be insulated from war…

Totally. But “down pat” and conversational are a bit different.

US ex pat here:

I agree with a big decision, but I strongly disagree with needing the language down pat before you go. You should know some for sure, and mostly have a willingness to learn it. You’re going to learn so much faster while there than you will studying in the US.

Just need enough language to get by at first

Better late than never?

Does… Does this person reach through the legs from the front?

And dont bring hair dryer!

COVID didn’t feel like it was going to change everything all at once at first to me. Lots of “2 weeks and it’ll be over” talk. Then reality slowly set it.

9/11 felt like all at once to me, same with the second Trump election. Like I woke up and things were different.

Jeg elsker dig for det

I have a Raspberry Pi 500 running PiOS that works well like a computer to just play things in browser. No ads or anything of course. But also no casting from a phone or anything

What’s wrong with “25 over 3?” I see the need for half 4 by itself but things being relative to that is so weird to me

Ugh okay here’s another “Danes shouldn’t be allowed to make number stuff”:

The time 15:25 is “five minutes before half 4”

“Fem minutter i halv fire”

So you round up to 16 before even halfway, what!?

Gas? It’s so much cheaper than the EU, even when it’s at its more expensive in the US

Sounds like you could invent a language with fancy rules :p

Um in Danglish:

Larry sold a lot of his(hans) stuff. Tom gave Steve his (sin if it’s Tom’s and hans if it’s Steve’s) stuff.

Just just for the current sentence(s). Like a new subject would “reset” it

Also, for what it’s worth, it feels a lot more natural with mixed genders here to me:

Steve gave Christina his phone

Right, in English you have to rephrase the sentence because the pronoun you need doesn’t exist. There’s just a pronoun for “male person” not one for “subject” or “object” of the sentence.

That’s why I replied with it to a “what word would you make up?” Question, because that’s what I would bring into English

The Americans I know outside the US (including me and my family) are devastated at the state of the US.

The Americans I know who still live there fully agree with my sentiments, but also are coping because they have to. Some of the cope is not reading news as much, not talking about it as often, shrugging and trying to just get by. It’s not good long term but it helps get through things like this. I think that’s actually part of the point from the fascists– make things so shitty you can’t keep up the anger.

Having visited both and now living in Copenhagen, it could change your life to visit! Great places to be a tourist

I think it’s fine to cycle here as a tourist, as long as you looked up the rules a bit first and were a decent cyclist.

Stay to the right, signal turns and stops, the only weird part is what to do when you’re taking a left at an intersection, where you “park” to wait

In Danish we have two different words for the pronoun “his” (or equivalent). In English you say:

Tom gave Steve his phone.

Which person’s phone is it? In Danish that would be clear depending if you used sit or hans