She’s born in Denmark and is a native Danish speaker, but is elected on Greenland, which has two seats in the parliament (it’s similar to Scotland in the UK).
She was informed to leave the podium after her speech, as she declined to answer questions using Danish. She gets €9000 per month to help translation of texts, and she was offered double time on the podium, if she wanted to use both languages.
The parliament is now considering spending millions to enable live translation just to suit her.
Lakuriqidites on
Greenland should be independent.Â
Evening-Street-9981 on
Well she is beautiful i am fine if she is talking inuit
Dane here I think it is colonial not to accept people speaking their mothertongue in the parliament, aka greenlandish and faeroese. I think it should be taught in danish schools.
OtherManner7569 on
Does Greenland actually benefit from being part of Denmark? The two are quite distant and Denmark is quite small economically and I doubt Denmark could defend the territory either.
I’m not advocating for an independent Greenland at all im all for territorial unity and people being closer together, im just curious to how it is.
ShapeSword on
She should have spoken in English so we can all understand, rather than using silly dialects like Danish.
RimealotIV on
baller move
Leppaluthi on
Discuss Greenland, Faroe Islands, or minorities in Denmark and so many Danes show their true colours, just like in this thread. Go Greenland!
Confident_Access6498 on
First world problems
Freddan_81 on
There is a similar story from Sweden a couple of years ago.
The rule is that you’re supposed to speak Swedish in the parliament, accents/dialects are allowed.
His speech was intended to show the absurdity in the parliament refusing to grant Elfdalian the official status as a minority language, arguing that it is just a dialect.
After his speech he was reminded by the talman (chairman of the parliament) that the official language of the parliament is Swedish and told that he should abstain from using Elfdalian in parliament henceforth.
The man claimed his point was proven and that he had technically used Swedish all along, due to the parliaments reluctancy to recognize Elfdalian as a separate language.
Great-Ass on
Imagine if they had 1 translator and they paid for 1 more salary, the danish economy will collapse
So what if she speaks it, let the Parliament just translate it? Is there any further issue beyond the simple solution? Isn’t freedom of expression about choosing your own language as well or what, it’s not like she’s speaking a foreign language. Greenland is dansih. I keep seeing this issue with Catalonia, Gallicia and Euskadi as well.
13 Comments
Absolutely disgraceful!
Sell Greenland to Canada!
She’s born in Denmark and is a native Danish speaker, but is elected on Greenland, which has two seats in the parliament (it’s similar to Scotland in the UK).
She was informed to leave the podium after her speech, as she declined to answer questions using Danish. She gets €9000 per month to help translation of texts, and she was offered double time on the podium, if she wanted to use both languages.
The parliament is now considering spending millions to enable live translation just to suit her.
Greenland should be independent.Â
Well she is beautiful i am fine if she is talking inuit
In case anyone is curious as I was about the language: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uer7Vj-WaAc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uer7Vj-WaAc)
Dane here I think it is colonial not to accept people speaking their mothertongue in the parliament, aka greenlandish and faeroese. I think it should be taught in danish schools.
Does Greenland actually benefit from being part of Denmark? The two are quite distant and Denmark is quite small economically and I doubt Denmark could defend the territory either.
I’m not advocating for an independent Greenland at all im all for territorial unity and people being closer together, im just curious to how it is.
She should have spoken in English so we can all understand, rather than using silly dialects like Danish.
baller move
Discuss Greenland, Faroe Islands, or minorities in Denmark and so many Danes show their true colours, just like in this thread. Go Greenland!
First world problems
There is a similar story from Sweden a couple of years ago.
A member of the Swedish parliament held a speech in Elfdalian (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfdalian).
The rule is that you’re supposed to speak Swedish in the parliament, accents/dialects are allowed.
His speech was intended to show the absurdity in the parliament refusing to grant Elfdalian the official status as a minority language, arguing that it is just a dialect.
After his speech he was reminded by the talman (chairman of the parliament) that the official language of the parliament is Swedish and told that he should abstain from using Elfdalian in parliament henceforth.
The man claimed his point was proven and that he had technically used Swedish all along, due to the parliaments reluctancy to recognize Elfdalian as a separate language.
Imagine if they had 1 translator and they paid for 1 more salary, the danish economy will collapse
So what if she speaks it, let the Parliament just translate it? Is there any further issue beyond the simple solution? Isn’t freedom of expression about choosing your own language as well or what, it’s not like she’s speaking a foreign language. Greenland is dansih. I keep seeing this issue with Catalonia, Gallicia and Euskadi as well.