From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   Lars Poulsen  wrote or quoted:   
   >The most famous Danish rock band Shu-bi-dua (managed to produce   
      
     (I'm not directly commenting on Shu-bi-dua, but on Danish.)   
      
     Danish is an important language for nerds, because a nerd   
     needs to get the pronunciation of Bjarne Stroustrup right.   
      
     Don't panic. I'll explain. It's   
      
   [ˈbjɑːnə ˈsdʁʌʊ̯ˀsdʁʊb]   
      
     . To clarify:   
      
     [ʊ̯ˀ] is non-silbic with a creaky voice.   
      
     Now, I sometimes heard it with an [ob] sound instead of the [ʊb], and   
     this is no error: That [ʊ] is sometimes realized as a short [o]!   
      
     I asked a Danish teacher about this and he did not know this (that   
     the [ʊ] sometimes is a short [o]). So with regard to that particular   
     aspect, I know more about Danish than that Danish teacher, while I   
     otherwise do not know any Danish at all, except "Bjarne Stroustrup".   
      
     (Yes, and of course the usual nerd stuff, like "rødgrød med fløde"   
     or "Lad 100 møller blomstre!".)   
      
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