From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13773 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Me, the businessperson Date: 04 Feb 1998 18:42:50 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <6fn2g74snl.fsf@bavur.dna.lth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI MIME-Edit 0.77) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153077 11072 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:31:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kurt Swanson , ding@gnus.org 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 JAA19534 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:49:47 -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 LAA15688 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:46:45 -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 MAN20192; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:21:41 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 04 Feb 1998 11:43:39 -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 LAA23503 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:43:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 22400 invoked by uid 504); 4 Feb 1998 17:43:18 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 22397 invoked from network); 4 Feb 1998 17:43:18 -0000 Original-Received: from blubb.pdc.kth.se (193.10.159.47) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 4 Feb 1998 17:43:17 -0000 Original-Received: from joda by blubb.pdc.kth.se with local (Exim 1.71 #3) id 0y08qd-0003b3-00; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 18:42:55 +0100 Original-To: Nils Goesche X-Emacs: 19.34 In-Reply-To: Nils Goesche's message of 04 Feb 1998 16:13:04 -0800 Original-Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.52/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13773 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13773 Nils Goesche writes: > I once met a Dane who claimed not being able to understand someone > from northern Danemark. Even if people speak the same language, they won't necessarily understand each other. I have a hard time to understand some kinds of Scanian (which is a southern province of Sweden, for all you foreigners). > How about German? Do scandinavians understand it without first > learning it? Not really. Many words has been imported from German, but that happened many centuries ago, and both modern German and Swedish must have drifted away from that. Supposedly, some [Swedish] dialects are more similar to German, so that people can actually understand each other. However, until about 50 or so years ago, German was a quite `popular' second language, and most people that did go to school studied it. You figure out why that changed. :-) Based on personal experience, I would guess that there's a 70/30 ratio between German/French as third language. Now, is this a theme for some mugs perhaps? /Johan