British English is hilarious however. Not the real British English of course, but the one spoken by American actors who play British people in semisuccessful TV series.
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Yeah, well, here we don't really speak Norwegian anymore  |
That's because you don't get your tele, I mean your TV dubbed. We don't do that and therefore don't get our language soaked through like that. The downside is, we tend to express ourselves in
this way, when asked to speak in English.
No, that's not completely true. People here have a better knowledge of the English language than they used to in the past. Meanwhile it's not considered to be something bad anymore. Why would use of English be considered to bad, you might ask? The reason: English words were overused in the youth language of the 70s, 80s and 90s. When using English words you outed yourself as a yob rebelling against the establishment. Recently I heard someone speak like that again and it all came back. English words sound so arrogant when used in German sentences, especially when the "r"s and "ay"s are pronounced correcly. It's weird, because they don't have that bad sound to them when used in complete English contexts.