My 530 professor, Jens-Erik Mai, is fun. He's fun partly because he has a sense of humor, but he's also funny because he's Danish. His pronunciation of metadata
is cute (he says it like meet-a-data
), but he has even more trouble pronouning the word specificity
. Today we tried to make him (attempt to) say it as many times we could. :-)
I also think there must be a Scandinavian sense of humor. Jens-Erik's sense of humor has something in common with my friend Ronnie, who is the son of my mother's Swedish pen pal. The only other place I have experienced this humor was in the documentation for my mother's Swedish sewing machine! I can't describe this sense of humor. It just is.
Ole Hartvig Mortensen says:
Yeah you're absolutely right about the scandinavian humor (takes one to know one I guess). It's.. well, we can just make fun of everything I guess, and most of the time using just a little tad of sarcasm that foreign people often miss (and as such feel sorely left out heh). Anyway, cool that you get it :o)
Ole