Maybe an error in the description?
I was tracing my lineage and it leads to that area.... it's confusing to an American or at least to me because I'm not even sure which language I would need to learn in order to communicate over there. I'm learning German which I understood to be Europes universal tounge but it seems there are many different types of German. My neighbors are old order Amish and the German/Dutch they speak is different than there...to make it even more confusing if I visited Scandinavia , there seem to be different languages spoken within a several hundred mile radius.Norweigian is a totally different language. 
 
Swedish and German are fairly close though aren't they?

Maybe he thought the Norwegian and Danish Ø was cooler?
 
Norwegian, Danish and Swedish are similar languages, we can in general speak to eacher, but the Danes have a very different accent so they can be hard to understand. For most Scandinavians English is the second language.
I can watch English and Swedish movies without subtitles, but not Danish.
 
German is very different, I don`t understand it. I think in many ways English is closer to Scandinavian than German since German has a more complex grammar.

So, if I build a really crappy microphone and people liken it to “a gerbil in a cardboard tube”, I could name the microphone Anäls EX-1.

Johannes H, sorry for my ignorance on this,and thanks for clearing that up.
 
When I attended school, second and third languages were an elective and not a prerequisite.And at the time I never elected to take them. Now I think that learning second languages are a requirement.
I wonder if the Danish accent is similar to say cockney English in that it's not the words so much as they way they are pronounced. Here in the US, I moved from the south and the northerners thought I sounded funny,but then the southerners think the northerners sound odd. Happens here too I guess......anyways...sorry to derail a thread about Rode microphones 
 
At least they didn't call it a rod microphone...Craig...don't 

Maybe because "o" with the dots would lead German-speakers to pronounce the company's name as "rude"?

Starise
 
At least they didn't call it a rod microphone...Craig...don't 

That would only work if the mic had multiple states of operation:  Ribbon, then dynamic and, finally, condenser.  Ya?
 
(I would also appreciate it if you didn't shape the windscreen like Darth Vader's hat.) 

Rude Mike.........
 
 
@Starise, from a Norwegian point of view the the Danish accent and also pronountiation sounds a little "blur",
but on the other hand it`s easier to read Danish than Swedish.

Johannes H
...but on the other hand it`s easier to read Danish than Swedish.

But, more importantly, which tastes better?  Danishes or Swedish meatballs??? 
(For me it's a tie - just not at the same time!  )

Johannes H
Rude Mike.........
 
 
@Starise, from a Norwegian point of view the the Danish accent and also pronountiation sounds a little "blur",
but on the other hand it`s easier to read Danish than Swedish.

 
 Johannes, My translation of this comment might be wrong, but it seems as if the Norwegians think the Danish have a drawl The differences are interesting.
 
It's all good...as long as we can be understood and understand. I sometimes have a tough time understanding some of the English I hear.
The other day I heard , "duckuper" I translated." There's a duck up there"...it was really " It's dark up there". Who knows...maybe I'm loosing my hearing.
 

Starise
I'm sure glad they didn't call it the Rodent...Rode sounds much better. Who knows though, might have still sold well. The geiko lizard seems to have made a great mascot for the insurance company by the same name.
 
 

[pedantic]
GEICO is the name of the company, not Geiko.  it's an acronym:  Government Employees Insurance Company.
 
a Gecko is a type of lizard which is supposedly modelled for the company mascot of GEICO.  and while there are many varieties of geckos in the world, the ones which live on my patio and in my mailbox don't look anything like the one on TV which appears to be approximately 6' to 8" tall, is primarily green and walks on two feet.
 
Geckos in our area are rust colored (helps them hide in the clay/sandy soil) no stripes or spots and definitely do not have a New Zealand accent.  Maybe a slight Latin flavor, but most definitely American.
 
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