Rumbas, Torben: Based on pubcon, I agree.

[rcjordan]

Do we agree? : YUROP

https://old.reddit.com/r/YUROP/comments/14yf3ok/do_we_agree/

Calum comes to mind.

[ergophobe]

Reminds me of a time in Florence, though the map has already ruined the story. My friend and I were in this lounge area at a hostel and this blonde, stereotypically Scandanavian looking woman asked a question.

We didn't catch it the first time. "Sorry?" She asked again. No go. Finally we understood, "Do you know what time it is?" Then we started talking o her for a while and got better at deciphering the accent. I had this uncomfortable feeling (subsequently confirmed) that my friend was on the verge of telling her that her English was very good. I cut him off and asked, "Where are you from?"





"Liverpool."

The followup - ran into her on the street, said hello, she said something incomprehensible and foreign sounding back. I said, "Sorry, I thought you were someone else." She said, "No, you're the guy I was talking to yesterday."

Then of course there is the fact that every American I know who has watched Trainspotting had to rewind to the beginning and turn on the subtitles.

[rcjordan]

We had to get somebody from York to interpret the Scots for us, but Calum....

I do OK around the midlands and -usually- London.  DK & Stockholm were easy, no problems at all.