You may very well be wrong. Danish - as well as English - is a Germanic language. In fact there's a lot of English words, that are originally Danish (old nordic), brought to England by the Vikings. The word "table" is one example. "Strand" is annother (beach). 1000 years ago, before French etc. influence in Britain, the Danes and the English could easily understand eachother. The basic words of English and Danish are almost identical:
Hand = Hand Eye = Oje Finger = Finger Ear = Ore Hammer = Hammer Nail = Negl Man = Mand House = Hus Ship = Skib Boat = Bad Etc. etc. Basic German words are not very different: Hand = hand Ore = Ear Mann = Man House = Haus etc. etc. The word "svar" is close to the last cylibal of answer In Danish "ansvar" means responsibility (responce = answer = svar) Ansvar = you must answer to... All three are Germanic languages as opposded to i.e. latin based languages. So, at the time of seawards travelling - we were basicly one big "family" in northern Europe. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Anders Hultman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 13. maj 2004 11:01 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: 50/1.4 and 135/2.5 On Thu, 13 May 2004, Ryan Lee wrote: > German users, what's the difference between AntWort and Svar? "Antwort" means "answer" in German. "Svar" means "answer" in Danish and Swedish. "Svar" is, as far as I know, not a German word at all. However, it is very silly of Microsoft to have translated the "Re: " into local languages, since so many mail programs depend on "Re: " being the standard. On the mailing lists I manage I have installed this nifty server filter to force mail into standard compliance: http://x42.com/software/mail/ anders ------------------------- http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!
