US Middle Class on the Edge | 47 comments (47 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Besides, the proportion of Finns who speak Swedish is small & shrinking.

Correction: the number of Finns who speak Swedish as their first language is small and shrinking.

Swedish is still a main subject in schools, though, I agree, it is under attack.

As for Danes being intelligible, I'd have to argue. But pop a hot potato in your mouth and maybe you can reproduce the speech patterns.

Personally I regard Norwegians as outside the Axis. You can't even pay taxis by credit card, and you need bank loan to get a G+T in a hotel.

We do not wish to belong to any club that would have us as a member.

Please name 10 important Norwegian innovations of the last 100 years. ;-) (apart, of course, from finding oil on your doorstep)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jan 3rd, 2006 at 12:25:55 PM EST
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Well, for one thing, GSM technology started here:

Above: the head of the Norwegian Torleiv Maseng

But of course, certain others have cribbed it to produce worthless phones that spend half the time on repair...

The world's northernmost desert wind.

by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Tue Jan 3rd, 2006 at 12:35:33 PM EST
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You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jan 3rd, 2006 at 12:54:07 PM EST
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So you can count that far. Not bad for a Finn! ;-)

Seriously though, I think it's time we quit hijacking this thing. We can duke it elsewhere later... Näkemiin.

The world's northernmost desert wind.

by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Tue Jan 3rd, 2006 at 01:00:20 PM EST
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unbelievably good looking women?

......(I may regret this remark,,,an attempt at humor).

by wchurchill on Tue Jan 3rd, 2006 at 12:37:12 PM EST
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I think the blonde is an earlier innovation, roughly cotemporal with the cheese cutter.

The world's northernmost desert wind.

by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Tue Jan 3rd, 2006 at 12:45:40 PM EST
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US Middle Class on the Edge | 47 comments (47 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)