HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: khan@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (LAHORI POOND)
Subject: Floods in Pakistan
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: w
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:59:24 GMT


According to CNN the death toll from the floods has risen to 2000,and this 
number continues to grow. From the pictures that they showed on the Tele the
situation looked very grim. They said something about the PM setting up a 
50 million $ fund in emergency aid. Though my roomates were shouting at the top
of their voices i was able to hear something abt the PM forgiving small loans   that the farmers had taken.
     Last night from a friend i found out that these floods are much worse than
the one that hit 1988-1989. Acoording to him some parts of Lahore have been
affected. I think the water reached till shadrah though i cannot confirm this.  
 Even though our politicans are more worried about their own offices I believe that this is a true test for the people of Pakistan. We studying abroad
should pitch as in as much as we can for the poor who tonight wont have a roof
to sleep under.


       Laters..

             ___
 Lahori (LHL 111) Poond
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
From: memon@acsu.buffalo.edu (Naveed Siraj Memon)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Rain Releif Fund
Date: 10 Sep 92 00:30:22 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Sep9.211414.1597@schbbs.mot.com> yasin@laser.dev.cdx.mot.com (Yasin) writes:
>In article <18lhl7INNbum@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> rahman@ces.cwru.edu (Rahman A. Soomro) writes:
>>
>>Dear friends,
>>
>>Recent rains in Pakistan have caused devastating effects on the 
>>daily life of the Pakistani people. Scores of people have lost there
>>lives and more than a million have been homeless.
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>.........stuff deleted
>
>Over a million homeless, it is sad, but I have qualms about the figure
>represented, could anybody please clearify Mr.Soomro's claim and what
>paritcular sector of interior Sindh was this devastation.
>
>Regards,
>
>Yasin.

Mr Soomro's claim is hereby clarified. Talked to folks in Karachi. The
figure is close to a million. As for the particular sector, I think the
regions which had not had rain fall in the last five years, (my guess
it is the South Eastern part) would be the most hit since the
rivers had dried up there the most. The Indus had flooded these
villages.
From: anajam@athena.mit.edu (ADIL NAJAM)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: terminator n+1 : Memo from Hell ;-)
Date: 6 Sep 92 19:31:39 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Syed Zafar Kazmi writes:
|> In article <1992Sep3.170801.3545@athena.mit.edu>, anajam@athena.mit.edu (ADIL NAJAM) writes:
|> 
|> stuff deleted....
|> 
|> |> 	ADIL [humm ko maaloom hai jannat ki haqeeqat, laikin
|> |> 	      dill kay kush rakhnay ko Ghalib, yeh khial aacha hai] NAJAM
|> 
|> Again, I take exception. The shayr is supposed to go like this:
|> 
|> 	Humm  ko  maaloom hai  jannat  ki haqeeqat, laikin
|> 	dill kay bahlanay ko Ghalib, yeh khayal achcha hay
|> 
|> Zafar Kazmi


	Your expected exception accepted, with apology.

	Hazoor, dill ko "kush rakhna" tha; "behlana" tha, iss behlaaway meiN
	agar Ghalib, ya unn kay madaahouN ki shaan meiN gustaakhi hooyee
	tou naadim houN, sharminda houN.

	ADIL [...andaaz-e-biyaaN aur...] NAJAM

	
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
From: dogar@rtsg.mot.com (Haroon H. Dogar)
Subject: Re: Is there a scp FAQ?
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:05:47 GMT

gulati@access.digex.com (Raj K. Gulati) writes:

>Hi,

>Is there a frequently asked questions posting for this group. If so,
>how can I get a copy?

I don't think that there is one, but if someone is interested in 
taking on this project, I have one suggestion:

PLEASE include the flame war topics.
       I don't mean that you include every post in an argument,
       (like the posts which Jamal Bhai saved), but that you
       summarize the major points of both sides in all of the
       flame wars (without editorializing or decalring a "winner").
       Likely candidates are Secularism vs. Islam, India vs. Pak over
       Kashmir, Ahmadiyyat, Javed Miandad vs. Imran Khan :-) :-) :-)
       who is to blame for the ethnic problems in Karachi/Sindh, etc.
       Any argument that comes up over and over without any
       resolution and just ends up rehashing the same points would be a
       valid candidate.

I would volunteer :-), but my net.attendance has been dropping off lately
and will continue to decline.

Thanks,
-hd
"We don't serve your country don't serve your King."
                      -Midnight Oil
"O Rabba ki kariye?!?"
                      -Heera
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.afghanistan,soc.culture.turkish,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.african-american,soc.culture.lebanon,soc.culture,bangladesh,soc.culture.asean,soc.culture.iranian
From: minhaszt@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Zafar T Minhas)
Subject: Re: Al-Mawlid Al-Nabaawi E-sharif
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 05:08:49 GMT

I found this in soc.culture.arabic

>
>Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatu Allah all brothers and sisters in Islam.
>
>These days we remember THE BIRTH OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMED (pbuh) and the
>Muslim Ummah in a state that no one will ENVY IT FOR. But THE HOPE IS
>THERE and THE CHANGE IS POSSIBLE. The only condition to taking the 
>effective  known and available medecine is to be able to see beyond
>the word : "AHAD AHAD .. " of BILAL and to see beyond BADR and less 
>than 320 people to see THE VAST SPACES of the spread of ISLAM in one 
>century - When we see and Act - we start making HISTORY again.
>
>What we do is only for us - ISLAM IS VICTORIOUS SOONER OR LETTER -
>with us or without us and with others. This has been promised by
>ALLAH. "Fa Allahu Akbar wa al-Aqibatu lilmuttaqin".
>
>So  let's CELEBRATE THE MAWLID BY A STRONG INTENTION FOR CHANGE
>TO THE BETTER AND BY  HARD WORK AND JIHAD (UTMOST EFFORT) IN 
>THE PATH OF ALLAH and HIS PROPHET.
>--
> Malek.
> 
> "We cooperate in what we agree on, and forgive each other for that
>  in which we disagree." Hassan El Banna.
From: azhar@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Salman [Quintessential] Azhar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: MORE Criket Gossip.....
Date: 11 Sep 92 01:13:26 GMT
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.

In article <1992Sep9.221337.17489@leland.Stanford.EDU> arkay@leland.Stanford.EDU (Abdur Khan) writes:
>>talking about cricket on SCP. Well, cricket is just fine, but
>>discussing balls is a bit too much. 
>
>Why should women not discuss balls methinks you play around with words
>and use to many innuendos.

	   Me use innuendos? Me? Me! Nay! I was talking about balls.
Are there any laws against discussing balls? Gimme a break!

>>	   Having said that, I must agree with Ms. F. Khurshid (who is
>>she?) that the English bowlers also tamper balls. 

>And how quickly you agree with all the femails on the net !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

	   Sir, that is the beauty of it! What asks thou? That? Waht's
that? That is to have women agree with you, and make'em them you are
agreeing with them.

>>	   There is a grain of truth in this. Cricket was introduced to
>>the colonies by the British, and there is considerable ego involved.
>>dsqa

>So was Tea and noe we drink more tea than the british

	   Only if you drink tea with milk/cream. Otherwise, tea
without any white substance is anti-British!

>sahibzada rafay khan []

	   Salman [looking down on creation, and smiling] Azhar

-- 
"To have loved and lost is better than to have won.... For, the burden
of victory has to be shouldered throughout life, and all losses rest
easy in the insatiable abyss called grave." 
--- D. Salman [Quintessential] Azhar CS Dept Duke U  azhar@cs.duke.edu
From: jan.knutzen@thcave.no (Jan Knutzen) 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: REQUEST: Swedish Syrup Br
Date: 10 Sep 92 02:03:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Thunderball Cave BBS - Oslo, Norway  (47 2) 56 70 18
Reply-To: jan.knutzen@thcave.no (Jan Knutzen) 

To: kwright@hoss.unl.edu

    ...funny. Smaaland in Sweeden is *not* mixing syrup into
bread solely as a consept of Smaaland. The syrup comes from
Scotland (Golden Brown). Most Scandinavians more ore less find
sweetened Sweedish pastry (at least configured as bread) boring,
but if you insist, use this:

    1 1/2 lit vrt
    1 1/2 kg. vetemjl
    1/2 lit   oskummad mjl
    2 hg.     pressjst
    1 spoon   salt
    unknown   raagsiktmjl
    150 gr.   smoer
    6 dcl.    sirap
    5 spoons  fenikkel
    5 spoons  pomereansska (?)

    ...stir slowly, but the rest of the process is left to the
enigma of Sweedish Syrup Bakery Syndicate's taste..

                                                 ...Jan K.
---
  SLMR 2.0  ...nsker meg en generell tagline-fjerner
From: hmj@cs.tut.fi (J{rvinen Hannu-Matti)
Subject: Re: More calendar questions
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:58:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.172022.12670@hellgate.utah.edu> lchoqu%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Lee Choquette) writes:
>up?  Why do the Finns celebrate Kristi himmelsf{rdsdagen (Ascension Day in the
>UK; we don't have it in the US) on a Saturday instead of a Thursday like the
>Swedes?  What's the point of having a holiday on Saturday?

There is no point having holiday on Saturday. This year Ascension Day
was celebrated on its original position, exactly 40 days from Eastern.

>Why don't I end a sentence with a period?

Perhaps your computer is missing a period and you are using a
questionmark instead of it?
-- 
-----
Hannu-Matti Jarvinen, hmj@cs.tut.fi
Opinions of tut != opinions of mine, and vice versa.
TTKK on samaa mielt{ kanssani siit{, ett{ en edusta sen mielipidett{.
-- 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: tomas_e@LINK.Physchem.KTH.SE (Tomas Eriksson)
Subject: Re: Norwegian Alphabet
Reply-To: tomas_e@LINK.Physchem.KTH.SE
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 10:55:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.144424.17239@eua.ericsson.se>, euafri@eua.ericsson.se (Fredrik.Ostman) writes:
>tomas_e@LINK.Physchem.KTH.SE (Tomas Eriksson) writes:
...about rings and "umlauts" in Swedish handwriting...
>>I have a feeling that deviations from " (towards ~ or _) is more common
>>among females than males.
>
>You are probably right, but *what* shall we call the little *ring* the
>girls use instead of a dot on top of i and j?

1) the ring above } ? :-)

2) wrong ?

I've also seen girls (sometimes rather old girls...) use small hearts 
instead of rings.

Tomas
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tomas Eriksson                                          tomas_e@physchem.kth.se
            Surface Force Group, Department of Physical Chemistry,
               Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
From: rahman@ces.cwru.edu (Rahman A. Soomro)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Rain Relief Fund
Date: 9 Sep 1992 19:49:10 GMT
Organization: Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: easy.ces.cwru.edu


Dear friends,

Recent rains in Pakistan have caused devastating effects on the 
daily life of the Pakistani people. Scores of people have lost there
lives and more than a million have been homeless.

	I appeal to you to help our brothers and sisters in need
and donate some money to help them. Please send your contribution
(tax deductible) with your name and also I request you to collect 
donations from any source -- your colleagues at work, friends, business
associates, customers, persons from any nationalities and backgrouds
to help people in trouble. 

	We are tying you help suffering peoples, who are suffering
from disease and malnutrition.

Please mail your contributions to:

Pakistan Rain Relief Fund
4105 Providence drive
St. Charles, MO 63304
USA


Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: steinarb@idt.unit.no (Steinar Bang)
Subject: Re: Norwegian Alphabet
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway
	<STEINARB.92Sep8111345@tindved.idt.unit.no>
	<1992Sep8.110020.10638@eua.ericsson.se>
Date: 9 Sep 92 10:02:52

>>>>> euafri@eua.ericsson.se (Fredrik.Ostman) writes:

> steinarb@idt.unit.no (Steinar Bang) writes:

>>> O"

>> How about "but"

> With a severe norwegian accent :-) !

Nah! Make that *without* a severe Swedish accent... ;-)

It's not an oe, boett itt iss klaas...

- Steinar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti)
Subject: Re: Union-busting the Finnish way
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 05:52:11 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.180728.10847@nntp.hut.fi> tsahib@vipunen.hut.fi (Tero Juhani Heikkinen) writes:
>And now for something completely different:
>(quoted without permission from Kauppalehti, the Finnish business daily,
>Monday 7 September 1992)
>
>MAJOR UNION GOES BUST
>
>One of the country's most influential trade union organizations has collapsed.
>The central association for government officials and office workers' unions,
>TVK, filed for bankruptcy last week having run up debts of more than 
>FIM 100 million. To blame was its own investment company, Vendito, which
>turned out to be yet another unfortunate player in the 'casino economy game'.
>It in turn had run aground largely as a result of misplaced investments in
>SKOP the failed central bank of the savings banks. Although a rescue looked
>possible last week, the health workers' union refused to pick up the bill
>in an arrangement that would have left it most exposed. TVK chairman *Riitta*
>*Prusti*, elected only three months ago, wept as she broke the news. About
>fifteen unions are now without an umbrella organization and face heavy debts.
>TVK represented nearly 400,000 workers, nearly 15 per cent of the national
>workforce, and its demise will obviously be felt in the autumn's pay talks.
>
>(end of quote)
>
>Share and enjoy,
>tsahib.
>
The best joy is maliscous delight says a proverb. I have been a private
member in an unemployment fund since years after realising a long time
ago that the trade unions use the money paid by the members for
their own business adventures like hotel business. So  the members
who may today say we did not know have just to blame themselves among
the others Riitta Prusti "who did not know anything."
Such leaders we have, they mostly "did not know anything"
when asked. Everyone can join an unemployment fund privately
 not via a trade union,
but I have noticed that even the academicals explain that they are members
in a trade union in order to get unemplyment benefits even if they are
not paid by the trade unions.And the trade unions do not want to correct this
common misunderstanding. 
Jarmo
>
>-- 
>***  Tero.J.Heikkinen@hut.fi  ***********  Disclaimer wanted: Apply within  ***
>"Well, I'm an accountant, and consequently too boring to be of interest."
>


Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman)
Subject: Re: More about meat
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 07:34:55 GMT

ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:
: It is totally wrong to compare Jan Arne with Mutlu. Mutlu has for instance
: no
: sence of humour.
: Jarmo 

But I didn't compare Jan Arne with Hasan B. Mutlu. I don't think they have
ANYTHING in common.
--
Sven Wallman, S:t Larsg. 5, 753 11 Uppsala, Sweden, +46 1812 9237
"I think, therefore I'm right."-Hugo Rune
"who's more important to you?
me or your stupid boyfriend?"-lpm@fert2.fe.psu.edu in an email addressed to my
girlfriend
From: armann@athena.mit.edu (Armann Ingolfsson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Norwegian Alphabet
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:05:53 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <1992Sep10.151551.17329@athena.mit.edu>, raustein@athena.mit.edu 
(Yngve Koehler Raustein) writes:
|> In article <72231@apple.Apple.COM>, minow@Apple.COM (Martin Minow) writes:
|> 
|> |> As has been already noted, it (along with the letters called a-dieresis
|> |> and o-dieresis) is a proper vowel in the Scandinavian and Finnish languages.
|> |> I.e., the ring is not something pasted over an A to "change" it. Phonemicly,
|> |> it is pronounced like the "oa" in English "boat" and "coal" which, not
|> |> coincidentally, are written b<a-ring>t and k<a-ring>l in Swedish.
|> |>
|> 
|> The Icelandic a' (a with an accent) is pronounced like the examples you
|> just gave, and I think it evolved like the a-ring.

Not true.  The Icelandic 'a is pronounced more or less like the "o" in "Howard".
I don't know how it evolved.

'Armann
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti)
Subject: Re: Maastricht once more in Denmark?
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 10:24:30 GMT

euafri@eua.ericsson.se (Fredrik.Ostman) writes:
: qvortrup@inf.ethz.ch (Michael Qvortrup) writes:
: 
: >This morning on the news I heard that Schlueter thought a new
: >vote on the Maastricht treaty might be possible in spring 1993.
: 
: This seems like a strange kind of democracy: if the poeple gives
: the politicians the wrong answer, then they try and try again until
: it gives the right answer. Are we living in the 16th century, with
: "princes" and "kings" staking their countries for personal glory?
: --
:   ______                     _~
:  (_/_ _  _  _/) _  . /)     / ) , _/)     _
: __/ _/(_(/_(/__/(_/_/Z_    (_/_/)_/__/))_(I_/)_

But you are much more ahead of other european states because you
actually were at least given a change to vote. 
Finland's administration is far behind danish one.

Maastrich Treaty is not translated into finnish at all

Okei, Finland is not yet joining  Common Market and therefore
it is too "early". 

When it was asked from the Foreign Ministry why Maastrich Treaty is
not translated into Finnish they answered that it is too difficult
to translate!!!!

The danes at least got the Treaty translated into danish and
it was distributed to the danes for reading. This however led
to a famous NO. So there is a fear, I suppose, if the Finns 
should know the contents of the Treaty also here the resistance
against Ec would rise. So the politicians do not like that people
 know too much. 
Jarmo Ryyti

Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic,soc.history
From: euafri@eua.ericsson.se (Fredrik.Ostman)
Subject: Re: Steaks
Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:39:31 GMT

ulf@gbg.infolog.se (Ulf Sundin) writes:
>rpeter@nmsu.edu (R. Peter Herman) writes:

>> Am I wrong in assuming that there is little beef (as opposed to veal)
>> raised in Norden? 

>This probably correct.

No veal either.

>> The only cattle I can remember seeing driving
>> around Sweden were clearly dairy cattle.

>So, the expensive beef you saw was probably swedish.

And made of dairy cattle.
--
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 (_/_ _  _  _/) _  . /)     / ) , _/)     _
__/ _/(_(/_(/__/(_/_/Z_    (_/_/)_/__/))_(I_/)_
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Subject: Re: Norwegian Alphabet
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 07:30:40 GMT

In article <72231@apple.Apple.COM> minow@Apple.COM (Martin Minow) writes:
> ...
>As has been already noted, it (along with the letters called a-dieresis
>and o-dieresis) is a proper vowel in the Scandinavian and Finnish languages.
>I.e., the ring is not something pasted over an A to "change" it. Phonemicly,
>it is pronounced like the "oa" in English "boat" and "coal" which, not
>coincidentally, are written b<a-ring>t and k<a-ring>l in Swedish.
> ...
>Pedantically yours,

All right, if we are being pedantic :-)
A-ring does not actually appear in Finnish (the two others do).
Swedish pronunciation: short vowel rather like English short 'o',
long vowel rather like English 'aw' (_not_ 'oa').
And 'coal' is 'kol' in Swedish, although this is one of those exceptional
words in which a long 'o' is pronounced as if if were '}' (a-ring).
'K}l' means 'cabbage'.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Markku Sakkinen (sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi)
       SAKKINEN@FINJYU.bitnet (alternative network address)
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
PL 35
SF-40351 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: efranqui@aludra.usc.edu (Eduardo Franqui)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: ?Cheap Rates on Airfare to Sweden???
Date: 11 Sep 1992 14:11:20 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

I was planing a trip to Goteborg (Gothenburg) next June.  My plan is to stay
there for two months.  Does anyoneknow of any cheap ways to get there from
Los Angeles.  Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appretiated.

Thank-you,

Eddy
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: tsahib@vipunen.hut.fi (Tero Juhani Heikkinen)
Subject: Union-busting the Finnish way
Summary: DIY
Keywords: union,bankrupt,!money
Reply-To: tsahib@vipunen.hut.fi (Tero Juhani Heikkinen)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 18:07:28 GMT

And now for something completely different:
(quoted without permission from Kauppalehti, the Finnish business daily,
Monday 7 September 1992)

MAJOR UNION GOES BUST

One of the country's most influential trade union organizations has collapsed.
The central association for government officials and office workers' unions,
TVK, filed for bankruptcy last week having run up debts of more than 
FIM 100 million. To blame was its own investment company, Vendito, which
turned out to be yet another unfortunate player in the 'casino economy game'.
It in turn had run aground largely as a result of misplaced investments in
SKOP the failed central bank of the savings banks. Although a rescue looked
possible last week, the health workers' union refused to pick up the bill
in an arrangement that would have left it most exposed. TVK chairman *Riitta*
*Prusti*, elected only three months ago, wept as she broke the news. About
fifteen unions are now without an umbrella organization and face heavy debts.
TVK represented nearly 400,000 workers, nearly 15 per cent of the national
workforce, and its demise will obviously be felt in the autumn's pay talks.

(end of quote)

Share and enjoy,
tsahib.


-- 
***  Tero.J.Heikkinen@hut.fi  ***********  Disclaimer wanted: Apply within  ***
"Well, I'm an accountant, and consequently too boring to be of interest."
From: zaphod@diku.dk (Ole D. M. Lennert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Norwegian Alphabet
Keywords: Norwegian Alphabet
Date: 7 Sep 92 21:25:31 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

John@boole.uucp (John Ahlstrom) writes:



[text deleted]

>At one time we thought we had it.  Someone said the name is "volle"
>(which they also said means "little pancake").  We sought confirmation
>and never found it.  Then we found a Danish woman who had immigrated to
>the US and is a librarian in Sunnyvale CA.  She remembered the Danish
>name for the little circle in Danish because it had just recently been
>adopted in Danish--"balle" meaning "bale" (not ball) and speculated that
>it had something to do with "tying together the two AAs that we used
>to use."  "Balle" sounded close to "volle" but we did not count it as
>confirmation.

No no no. It's "bolle" - at least, that's what my old school teacher
told me. A "bolle" is a round cake. The thing over {\aa} is also
round. 

[More text deleted]

Ole Lennert
E-mail: zaphod@diku.dk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: tom@bim.itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar)
Subject: Re: Norwegian Alphabet
Organization: Inst.of Theor.Chemistry,Univ.of Vienna,Austria
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 11:18:34 GMT

andersa@Riga.DoCS.UU.SE (Anders Andersson) writes:
: 
: To me, an 'e with umlaut' is a severe betrayal of reality!

  Quite right... A diarhesis is actually neither an accent, nor a diacritical
sign :-))
								Tom