Travel Tip #478: In Germany, Turnips are Sexy, And Other Language Lessons from the Road to Elsewhere

Stranger in a strange land? Your tongue can show you the way home.

I HAVE ALWAYS been good at accents. 

I learned this as a seven-year old, when I flawlessly repeated the ad line “It’s not fried, it’s Shake n’ Baked, and I hepped!” with a deep-south accent. It made the grownups laugh, especially in southern Connecticut, where the primary accent is on making loads of money to pay for life in southern Connecticut. 

It gave…