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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:07:44 EST
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- From: Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: What kind of people are you, anyway?
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- Torkel skriva:
- > Pretty good! I see that I may as well post in Swedish from now on. Words-l
- >can handle words of all kinds.
-
- Pa svenska?!?! Looking up all those words gave mir eine grosse
- huvudvark, by Thor! Also, it was reminiscent of Dr. Seuss's
- _On Beyond Zebra_ because the the Swedes do their alphabet
- *wrong* ;-) All those vowels with the circles and the umlauts
- appear *after* z, something I didn't catch on to until I had spent
- several minutes with the word 'ratta,' which, depending on how
- the initial 'a' is draped, can mean "mice" or "wheels." For a
- while I had thought Torkel was taking a stand in the Mac/PC
- wars.
-
- Bill
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