Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

> Geoff, you know me well enough :-). I *have* looked at the Swedish/Danish
> LUG web page / mailing list archives before posting one of my previous
> follow-ups. They are mostly in their native tongue, and that is
> qualitatively less comprehensible than, say, Italian or Spanish. So
> whoever said sth liek "the Swedes would laugh at you" had a
> point. They have a much lower hurdle though since they use LTR Latin
> alphabet.

Sure, but how much of the postings would be the same words we use in English,
with swedish verbs and adjectives wrapped around them.? I have a friend who
beleives that I read Mandarin Chinese, as he gave me a book in that language
with some sample BASIC code and I wrote him a menu in english at the waiter's
station, order printed out in chinese in the kitchen program. :-)

Geoff.

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