From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13777 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Zander Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Me, the businessperson Date: 04 Feb 1998 10:43:27 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87en1jw6r4.fsf@wsuse5.mckesson.com> References: <6fn2g74snl.fsf@bavur.dna.lth.se> Reply-To: stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153081 11097 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:31:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA20619 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:50:48 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA15894 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:47:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAN20390; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:23:21 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 04 Feb 1998 12:44:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA25333 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:43:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 22626 invoked by uid 504); 4 Feb 1998 18:43:49 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 22623 invoked from network); 4 Feb 1998 18:43:49 -0000 Original-Received: from interlock.mckesson.com (199.221.43.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 4 Feb 1998 18:43:49 -0000 Original-Received: by interlock.mckesson.com id AA13526 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for ding@gnus.org); Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:43:46 -0800 Original-Received: by interlock.mckesson.com (Internal Mail Agent-1); Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:43:46 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Organisation: speaking through, but not for, McKesson Corp In-Reply-To: Kurt Swanson's message of "04 Feb 1998 10:37:50 +0100" Original-Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13777 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13777 Kurt Swanson writes: > This is the classic example linguists cite in the literature. > Swedish, Danish and the 73 different Norwegians are lignuistically all > dialects of one of two Scandinavian languages (the other being > Icelandic-Faeroe). Many things which are commonly called a single > language are not mutually intelligible (Chinese languages are often > simply called "Chinese") whereas the Eastern Scandinavian languages > are mutually intelligible to a very high degree. The other day three > Swedes, two Danes, a Norwegian and I had no trouble conversing around > the coffee table. Isn't English wonderful! :))) -- Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me