Looking after Australia and England IP

Okay, so I am a Dane. I never realised that my nationality would mean much to me in a globalised world. Not only am I me but I am different. I live in a country where English is not the native language. That makes me different from the majority of Abctalers. It’s not: So what? As I discovered yesterday we have no leaky brains in Denmark. It has never been an issue with Danish women as far as I know and I read the news daily- even the health pages. Ergo Danish women have other issues than English women. I think I knew that but it’s nice to have it confirmed. I am sure we can make a better world if we join forces.
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I’m not going to say that I am proud of being a Dane. Who’s proud in our Western world of their nationality. I am a Dane fullstop. The little I know of the UK, your traditions, your history, your present and you isn’t very much. But what I know I like. I also like Americans, Africans, Canadians and Oh! not to forget Australians (never to forget). That is my only claim to fame: that I grew up in Australia and ever since have loved the English language. I read a lot of English language writers as a child and still do. I prefer the English language to the danish. Danish seems clunky and less emotional and not very eloquent as English. When I read your work here on Abc I lap up the language; the colloquialisms, the history from which English has developed and the stories from your special traditions.
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England is big- much bigger than Denmark and exciting to know. Denmark is exciting too I think. But I don’t mind expanding my knowledge. You are all close to my heart.

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I know my English is pretty lousy- it’s pretty much danish-English (my spellcheck made that capital). I have a wide vocabulary in English, I.e I can read it and I know what the words mean but I can’t always translate into danish. I also know a lot of danish expressions I have to look up to translate to English and some can’t be translated. I can hold a conversation in danish much better than in English I know. I have been in Denmark for more than 40 years and that is much much longer than I ever was in Oz. I lived in London for 6 months and a lot of that time I was in Morocco .
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I’m not going to make a lot of excuses for my english. What I really am trying to say is that I am different and I can’t speak with you as you speak with each other with all the experiences you Brits have in common.
So I feel outside and when someone points out that life in Denmark may be very different to life in the UK- like us having no leaking brains- I feel different and a bit sad. Why sad? Because I feel as though I am missing out on something and essentially I want it all.

I would also like to be able to speak French fluently : “thank you for telling me that the hotel room costs €200 for a night,” (after which I quietly creep out of the hotel).

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So language is a difficult thing. I know you can’t speak danish- most of you and please don’t think that we are especially good or anything just because we are danish- we are just different in many ways. No leaky brains, for instance. But they may very well get to our country at some point. I mean we are all in the EU like it or not and that means common standards.
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I have forgotten to mention Americans, Canadians, Australians and Africans- but anyone who is good at English has my respect. There are Danes who are better at English than me. We don’t have a danish writing site like Abc and as I love writing and reading in english I am going to hang on to Abc. And you’ll just have to put up with my quirky English.

As much as I hate to admit it Tan65 led me on to this more or less inspired piece of writing.

So please, all of you: Look after Australia and England for me!