Should the US Invade Greenland (Denmark) & Panama

Apparently, but they don't play championship qualifiers and the like since they are not members of FIFA. Seems they mostly play Iceland and Faroe Islands. If Greenland goes independent they likely will enter FIFA.
They have recently applied for CONCACAF membership, though. Other sports teams of theirs play continental and even pan-American tournaments as well.
 
remember they are a modern tech state with western media and such, and there's just not a lot of that made in greenlandic or danish, which is a big reason us smaller countries are often good at english.
Yes, but the comparatively high levels of profficiency in English in Nordic countries is something that predates the Internet era.
 
Yes, but the comparatively high levels of profficiency in English in Nordic countries is something that predates the Internet era.
i actually didn't know. i know my parents speak english much better than their generation in most other countries i've visited, and it's not particularly because of english media (like, we're not even talking internet); during their formative years, they watched swedish tv (poor sods). i presume it has been a dedicated educational effort since ww2. i also know our teaching techniques vary quite a bit from what i know of the methods elsewhere, but while i love ranting about it, it's outside the scope of this thread.
 
^!!! The Swedes a.k.a. ABBA were already singing in English in the 1970s.

btw when I read ‘they watched Swedish tv (poor sods)’ Humon's characters flashed into my mind.
 
^!!! The Swedes a.k.a. ABBA were already singing in English in the 1970s.

btw when I read ‘they watched Swedish tv (poor sods)’ Humon's characters flashed into my mind.
Beginnings were humble. Benny Andersson in 1966 – lyrics written using a lexicon;

It's bit like Japanese "decoration English" these days.
 
i have to fill my daily quota of danishness.
Which is not necessarily bad, since what is arguably Madonna's best track of the century samples from ABBA.
And also the butter cookies.
Beginnings were humble. Benny Andersson in 1966 – lyrics written using a lexicon;

It's bit like Japanese "decoration English" these days.
Ah yes, decorative English. A most interesting concept I encountered in my linguistic studies.
 
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