Burplefrog!

The winter palace for the Danish royal family is in Copenhagen. The main summer palace, on the other hand, is further up north, in Aarhus.

See? Copenhagen is a little more south than Aarhus. But why would they build the summer palace further up north? Summers here are not hot and the Danes seem to love to bask in the sun every chance they can get, so it would actually be a better idea to build the summer palace further south and soak up the rays for as long as possible, no?

I thought about this, and I have a theory. They didn't have refrigerators in those days, right? If they'd built their summer palace too far south, their beer would have gotten warm too quickly. Nobody wants to drink warm beer, but they need beer to speak Danish. Because the entire language sounds like it evolved out of the mumblings of drunk people speaking through mouthfuls of mashed potatoes. Just watch this. Rød grød med fløde is a Danish dessert - berries with cream. It's also what Danish people ask foreigners to say when they want to laugh at them.

See, I told you. To be honest, though, it doesn't always sound as bad as this. It's just the strange r sound (and I thought French was bad), the soft d sound which is present in way too many words ([ð], for everyone who has taken EL1101E), and the three weird new letters æ, ø and å. It's also really hard to learn because most of the time you pronounce only half the letters in each word, but this doesn't hold true for all words. So udvekslingstuderende (exchange student) sounds pretty much the same as it looks, except for the soft d in the first syllable, but selvfølgelig (of course) sounds like selføli.