Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Spoken like a true Finn ;-) As someone who visited Helsinki at least 30 times during the late 90s and early 00s, I can only say that I am grateful for the bilingual signs in that city. Otherwise, I would have felt like a complete illiterate--how can a visitor deal with a language where even the word for "telephone" is "puhelin"? Cheers, Nathan (whose maternal grandmother was from Kotka) Raimo K wrote: > Svenska? Nej! (Swedish? No!) > All the best! > Raimo K (who had to learn Swedish in school) > Personal photography homepage at: > http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: <Afterswift@aol.com> > To: <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:27 AM > Subject: [Leica] OT Romantic Italian Repertoir > > > <snip> >> Woody Allen, in his movie about SA insurgents, has the leader of the >> guerillas, when he conquers a town, command: "And from now on >> everybody will speak >> Swedish." >> Maybe Woody had a point. >> >> Bob >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, Netherlands and Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog