Hello Lars, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > Hi, > > The OOo Swedish community is apparently small but growing, and has > been without a lead for a while. > > After a brief dialog with Charles, I've decided to try my hand at > rejuvenating the OOo Swedish project (sv.openoffice.org) that has > remained orphaned. My native language is English, I can write in > Swedish well enough to be understood about as much as my English, but > do make errors.
Everybody does ;-) ... > > I read Swedish confortably and get by in Norwegian, Danish, Spanish > and a useless, but increasing, amount of Finnish. I understand spoken > Swedish, including most regional variants, and the far north variants > of Norwegian. I speak Swedish well enough that I've spoken at > conferences and that university students have preferred it to my > English or even to native speakers with strong regional accents. Many > people over 50 peg my accent as being from some English speaking > country. Many others guess Icelandic. (I'm still trying to figure > that out. A native Icelander assumed from my speech that I am > Norwegian.) > > Anyway, I've lived and worked in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, > spend my time avoiding work nowadays. Thanks for volunteering, Lars. I'll soon reopen the swedish project creation issue, and I'll also try to collect all the contacts who wrote me off list asking me where they could grab OOo in Swedish. Congratulations, Lars, you will soon be the new Swedish Native-Lang lead (http://sv.openoffice.org) . Please read http://native-lang.openoffice.org and http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/NLC for more information about the NLC. Best, Charles. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
