Good old Europe

blakeyrat

@hallo.amt said:

We can speak English, it's proven http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWB5oyIjSF0

50% of business is GEOLOGY? Am I hearing that right?

b_redeker

@hallo.amt said:
We can speak English, it's proven http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWB5oyIjSF0
50% of business is GEOLOGY? Am I hearing that right?

Close enough. My god, that is just painful to watch/hear. Schrecklich.

b_redeker

@b-redeker said:

Close enough. My god, that is just painful to watch/hear. Schrecklich.

Then again, this. (NSFW depending on W)

Zemm

@b-redeker said:

@b-redeker said:
Close enough. My god, that is just painful to watch/hear. Schrecklich.

Then again, this. (NSFW depending on W)

I saw that once on an adults only worlds best/worst commercials on tv.

Daniel_Beardsmore

@Cad Delworth said:

@b-redeker said:
@dhromed said:
@bjolling said:
sjam

Although nobody actually says "sj" instead of "s"

Amshterdam. But no actual people live there, only sex-workers, writers and tv people.
Indeed. Even a Scot like me knows there is no such sound as "sh" in spoken Nederlands ...

I've heard it pronounced that way on Dutch radio – closer to om-shter-dom. Even if I misheard it, it would indicate that the stereotypical accent has a basis in fact. The pronunciation of the name Astrid is also odd -- closer to ows-strit.

dhromed

@Daniel Beardsmore said:

I've heard it pronounced that way on Dutch radio – closer to om-shter-dom.

Guy had a lisp, I guess. I myself am guilty of going sh at times, but that doesn't make it right or common.

@Daniel Beardsmore said:

The pronunciation of the name Astrid is also odd -- closer to ows-strit.

The A must be pronounced like the one in bath, but short; perhaps like the u in but and gun. "ows-strit" is messed up.