HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: veit@Unify.com (Veit Irtenkauf)
Subject: Re: MEDAL COUNT mo 27.7.
Organization: Unify Corporation (Sacramento)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 18:47:32 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.220118.16141@cs.hut.fi>, killer@robocop.cs.hut.fi (Kalle Kivimaa) writes:
>  
>

I consolidated the German (Germany, East Germany and West Germany) medals and 
the EUN medals (EUN + SOviet Union, because EUN is a commonwealth of former
Soviet Union States), so it looks like the following

> 
> 
>          TOTAL MEDAL COUNT
> 
> 
> USA		   756   573   491
EUN		   401	 320   286
Germany		   313   341   344
> Great Britain	   172	 223   209
> France	   164	 168   174
> Italy		   140	 114   117
> Sweden	   134	 145   169
> Hungary	   126	 114   138
> Finland	    98	  75   111
> Japan		    87	  76    82
> Australia	    74	  67	90
> Romania	    55	  64	85
> Checkoslovaki	    45	  51	46
> Norway	    42	  33	34
> Canada	    40	  62	76
> Poland	    40	  57	95
> Switzerland	    40	  55	53
> Holland	    39	  44	60
> Belgium	    39	  43	45
> Bulgaria	    38	  63	52
> Denmark	    33	  60	53
> Yugoslavia	    26	  29	29
> New Zeland	    25	   6	21
> Turkey	    24	  13	10
> China		    23	  30	24
> Cuba		    23	  23	15
> Greece	    22	  39	40
> Austria	    18	  26	34
> South Korea	    18	  22	25
> South Africa	    15	  14	21
> Argentina	    13	  19	14
> Kenya		    11	   9	11
> Mexico	     9	  12	18
> India		     8	   3	 3
> Brazil	     7	   9	20
> Estonia	     6	   6	 9
> EUN		     6	   1	 0
> Spain		     5	  13	 9
> Egypt		     5	  13	 8
> Ireland	     5	   4	 5
> Ethiopia	     5	   1	 4
> Iran		     4	  11	15
> Jamaica	     4	  10	 6
> Pakistan	     3	   3	 2
> Morocco	     3	   1	 2
> Korea		     3	   0	 5
> North Korea	     2	   5	 5
> Portugal	     2	   4	 7
> Uruguay	     2	   1	 6
> Russia	     1	   4	 3
> Venzuela	     1	   2	 5
> Trinidad	     1	   2	 4
> Tunisia	     1	   2	 2
> Uganda	     1	   2	 1
> Peru		     1	   2	 0
> Luxemburg	     1	   1	 0
> Bahama Island	     1	   0	 1
> Surinam	     1	   0	 1
> Zimbabwe	     1	   0	 0
> Mongolia	     -     -     +1
> 


Please, no political flames!!!!

Veit

Xref: sparky soc.culture.pakistan:12924 soc.culture.indian:26545
From: azeem@juliet.caltech.edu (Azeem, Mohammad)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: ANOTHER JOKE, no offense!
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:19:00 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Jul24.181818.16067@uceng.UC.EDU>, mghayalo@uceng.UC.EDU (Manoj Ghayalod) writes...
>In article <1992Jul24.143342.3648@cbfsb.cb.att.com> onf@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (omar.farooq) writes:
>>
>>A Sikh newlywed couple is given a house in a village as a present.
>>The village is mostly Hindu and Muslim,and they are the only Sikhs
>>in the area.  Since they have just moved in, the house is mostly
>>empty and bare.  
>>
>>So one day, the wife says:
>>"Bazar ja kay ik almari thay laia!"
>>
>>The Sardar is busy with his own things and says:
>>"Main apni fursat nal jawan ga, mennu thang na kar!"
>>
>>Many days go by and guests start arriving at the new couple's home, so
>>the wife, who is upset by now, says:
>>"Kapre saray bikar pay, thenu koee sharam nee andee"
>>
>>So the husband reluctantly strolls into the bazaar in the center of the
>>village, walks up to a storeowner and says:
>>"Pahji, ay almari kennay dee aiy"
>>
>>The storeowner replies:
>>"Sardar-ji, thoday nal koi karobar naee chalda, thuseen aithon jao"
>>
>>The husband, perturbed at the reaction of the local people, decides to 
>>wait a week and come back with a different look.  After one week, he
>>has removed his beard and Sikh turban and grown a long moustache and
>>a regular turban with a long kurta and dhothi.  He then walks into
>>the same store and says:
>>"Pahji, ay almari kennay dee aiy"
>>
>>The storeowner replies:
>>"Thu phir aithay agia, mai thennu dusrian, aithon chathee nal nikalja"
>>
>>Again, the husband is quite perturbed and goes home very discouraged.
>>But he decides to give it one more try and waits another week to yet
>>come back with another different look.  A week goes by and he now looks
>>like an Arab Sheikh: he has a goatee beard, a headdress, a robe, dark
>>glasses and a brief case.  
>>He walks up to the same storeowner and says:
>>"Marhaba, Assalamualeikum Warahmatullah, ye almari kithnay ka hay?"
>>
>>The storeowner replies:
>>"O Sardar-jiii, thusee baz nee anday, may kennee daffa thonnu dassan
>>ga, thoday nal koi karobar naee chalda.  Aithon ja, verna may bakian
>>noo bulandan"
>>
>>The Sardar gets very upset and suddenly tears off his head gear and
>>shouts:
>>"Thennu kiddan patha see kai may Sardar ahn"
>>
>>The storeowner replies:
>>"Sara wuqth, thu hee es fridge noo almari kayray-a see!"
> 
>A pundit is walking in front of a mosque tossing a rupee coin, the
>coin falls on the road and rolls off in the gutter. The pundit says
>"Allah help me" and the coin comes back to him. The mullah from
>the mosque runs to the pundit and says "at the end you have to ask
>Allah for help". The pandit says "Did you think I would ask Ram
>to go in the gutter?".

 Of course not! If Ram could have helped he would have thrown it out
 before Allah went looking for it.

 No offence!

> 
> 
> 
>As you said, no offence.
> 
>Manoj
From: jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Early education ruins American woman : -)
Date: 24 Jul 92 12:19:13 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico



Keywords: pakistani, fool, terrorist, oppression, labor laws

In article <1992Jul24.005951.9583@panix.com> ruthless@panix.com (Ruth Ditucci) writes:
>One of the most interesting temporary jobs I had recently was working for
>a Pakistani.

[ lots of bigotry deleted ]

Judging from what you have written,  I can safely conclude that this man,
like you Ruth, is one slimy charecter.  I am glad that I have met neither
of you

And what would an outburst of bigotry be without the obligatory (and
gratuitous) linking of Eastern men and terrorism?

j n a
From: memon@acsu.buffalo.edu (Naveed Siraj Memon)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re tribal wife killing
Date: 25 Jul 92 21:01:42 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: UB

>From: ruthless@panix.com (Ruth Ditucci)
>Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
>Subject: Re: Pakistani marriage arguments and discussions...
>Keywords: killing wife, divorce, backward tribal laws
>Message-ID: <1992Jul25.161557.7905@panix.com>
>Date: 25 Jul 92 16:15:57 GMT
>Organization: Panix, NYC
>Lines: 11

>It seems to me that arguing about what is and isn't right in a marriage
>between a man and woman who live in a country which allows men to
>murder their wives when they're done with them is a rather-

	>moot point.


>Allow Pakistan to work on the simpler things such as their water
>system and their thousand diseases which are running rampant.  They
>are far from ready to work on things- social.  

It seems to me that arguing about what is and is'nt right in a marraige
between a man and a woman who live in a country where kids have suffered
the most due to the individualistic social norms and practices and their
lives have been devastated listening to court hearings about child support
and visitation rights and restraining orders.


Allow the "home of the poor and the hungry and the wretched refuse of the
world"  to provide the simplest social programs of sex education to the 13 year 
old girl in Harlem. Allow the bigots in the US state department to let
the HIV positive individual to enter the land of the free, home
of the brave (Wink Wink) to seek treatment. Allow the red neck police to 
treat humans equally. Allow a woman to have control over her body. 
These things are as much a social disease in the US as wife-killing is in 
the tribal areas. Do I need to mention that failed marriages are much 
more rampant in the US. 

Did you hear that kids can divorce their parents in Florida now?



Naveed
From: ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Arun K. Gupta)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: NATIONAL LANGUAGE
Date: 27 Jul 92 11:17:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.ceR4j1_00VogA3gksV
Organization: Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA



Japan may have an advantage in having very little ethnic diversity.
Again, it may not.  One economist whom I heard on the radio was of
the opinion that to compete with a united Europe (including East
Europe) of 800 million people, with the scientific talent, design and
fashion reputation, financial expertise and industrial muscle represented
by Russia, Italy, France, Germany etc., Japan would have to lead the
way in forming an Asian bloc -- and the lack of experience with
diversity would be a handicap.

-arun gupta
ag3L@andrew.cmu.edu
From: irwin@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Irwin David)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Questionnaire
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:32:32 GMT
Distribution: qc
Organization: Universite de Montreal



To whom it may concern,


In order to complete a Ph.D. dissertation in the field of political science 
I must verify a certain number of propositions. To do so, I must gather data.
To gather data I must ask people to fill a questionnaire.

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If yourself or your parents were born in a country other than Canada you| 
qualify as a respondent. You must also be  a resident of the province 
of Quebec.
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If you wish to receive a copy of the questionnaire or further details, please 
send me a message or provide me with a postal address. You should expect the
questionnaire to arrive via Canada Post within the week. 

P.S. Thank you to those who have already accepted to participate in the
study.

Regards.

David H. Irwin

Please note: this posting should appear only in the Quebec distribution
area. If you can read this posting outside the province of Quebec, please
disregard it. The survey is limited to Quebec residents. Thanx!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
David H. Irwin				E-mail: irwin@ere.umontreal.ca
University of Montreal
			<<Have a Nice Day>>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
From: ahasan@cae.wisc.edu (Ali Hasan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: fatwa for today
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:13:11 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering

In article <1992Jul21.202254.12691@leland.Stanford.EDU> usman@leland.Stanford.EDU (Usman Hameed) writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.104031.15608@doug.cae.wisc.edu> ahasan@cae.wisc.edu (Ali Hasan) writes:
>
>>	Hey!! You left out shia men :-(
>
>But you're already jamming with the radical shia babes. 
	
	Am I?? 
	If you know of any "radical shia babes", kindly
	refer them to me :-)
>Aur kiya chahiyay.
>
>
>>	Does that mean we don't get married ?
>
>Matrimony mein kiya parrha hai baba.
>
>
>>	Or are we allowed to run after blondes now ?
>
>Would you substitute them for shia bachchis?
	
	No!
	Blondes kaa muashray mein apna maqaam hai !!
>
>
>>					--ali ;-)
>
>Usman

					--ali ;-)
-- 
**********************************************************************
* Ali Hasan			Computer Aided Engineering	     *
* ahasan@cae.wisc.edu		UW-Madison.			     *
**********************************************************************
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
From: zia@evans.ee.adfa.oz.au (Zia Ahmed)
Subject: Re: The Bear Trap - book by a pakistani general
Organization: University College UNSW ADFA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:33:33 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.132201.18411@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mmasood@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mohammed A Masood) writes:

   Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!mmasood
   From: mmasood@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mohammed A Masood)
   Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
   Nntp-Posting-Host: magnusug.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
   Organization: The Ohio State University
   Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:22:01 GMT
   Lines: 6

   Salaam, have anybody heard of the book called "The Bear Trap" 
   by General Yusuf of Pakistan.  It deals with the issue of arms
   aid to Afghanistan Jihad during the period of `83-`87?

   If yes, could you send me some info on how to get hold to a copy
   of the book.  I don't seem to find at the Ohio State Univ. Lib.

   THE BEAR TRAP (243 pages)
   BY: MOHAMMAD YOUSAF AND MARK ADKIN
   PUBLISHER: LEO COOPER, UK
   PRIZE: 18.50 (Pounds Sterling)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
From: umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor)
Subject: Pakistani Olympic Events
Followup-To: poster
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 18:34:29 GMT


Does anyone know if the Pakistan's Hocky Matches would be televised (sp?)
in Canada. If yes, time, date, channel (ctv?) etc....

thanks,
--nasir
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
From: usman@leland.Stanford.EDU (Usman Hameed)
Subject: Re: How formative years' education can ruin an adult male pakistani
Keywords: pakistani, fool, terrorist, oppression, labor laws
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 23:26:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.005951.9583@panix.com> ruthless@panix.com (Ruth Ditucci) writes:

  [STUFF DELETED]

>Not having a full understanding of american labor laws, he's in constant
>conflict with the unions, the eeo and what ever other agencies protect
>people from such terrorists.  I remember a day when one of the accountants
>didn't submit a more datailed report- he summarily dressed the man up and
>down (in full view and ear shot of his contemporaries).  The man was an
>older worker (not valued in Pakistan).  In contrast, I also noticed that
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Patently untrue!  Respect for and deference to older people is one
of the hallmarks of Pakistani culture.  Do you generalize on the
basis of observing one person from Pakistan?

Usman
From: zafir@unssun.nevada.edu (Zia Zafir)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: A ghazal by Ada Jaafry
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:30:14 GMT
Reply-To: zafir@unssun.nevada.edu (Zia Zafir)
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno

Here is beautiful ghazal by Ada Jaafry.  Some netters will remember that
Ustad Amanat Ali Khan had sung this wonderfully.

	HooNtoN pe kabhi un ke mera naam hi aaey
	aaey to sahi bar sar-e-ilzaam hi aaey

	hayraan haiN, lab basta haiN, dilgeer haiN ghunchay
	khushboo ki zubaani tera paighaam hi aaey

	taaroN say saja laiNgay rahe shehr-e-tamanna
	maqdoor naheeN subh chalo shaam hi aaey

	kiya raah badalnay ka gila hum safaroN say
	jis reh say chalay teray dar-o-baam hi aaey

	baaqi na rahay paas Ada dasht-e-junooN ki
	dil maiN agar andesha-e-anjaam hi aaey

Zia Zafir
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: aforsten@aton.abo.fi (Annika Forsten INF)
Subject: Re: Understanding language (Was: Re:  <None>)
Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
	<ANDERS.92Jul28005142@lise4.lise.unit.no>
	<TT.92Jul28093402@tarzan.jyu.fi> <1992Jul29.121641.25112@nntp.hut.fi>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:33:17 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.121641.25112@nntp.hut.fi> laku@vipunen.hut.fi (Lauri H Eklin) writes:

>	   BTW, some swedish friends told me that the "finlandssvenska"
>   is the best-sounding version of the group swedish/norwegian/danish..
>   and it was an opinion of not only one or two people!

Well maybe not the best-sounding, but the easiest to understand. It is
slower and clearer than the other versions. My father who has held lots
of lectures in Sweden (he is a Swedish-speaking Finn) has been told many
times that they find him easier to understand in Sweden than they do many
Swedes.

annika forsten, finland
aforsten@aton.abo.fi
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: ppessi@vipunen.hut.fi (Pekka Pessi)
Subject: Re: Finnish question
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 29 Jul 92 22:50:58

In article <9207271145.AA10264@Aragorn> ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering) writes:
>ISO standard 6937 mentions that the Finnish language uses two characters
>that look like S and Z with a small v above (a hacek accent).

>I have never seen any Finnish text that uses these two characters.
>Does Finnish use them? Or has Finnish used them in the past?

	These letters are used only in foreign proper nouns or loan
	words. For example, Chad is T\vsad in Finnish, champagne is
	\vsamppanja. \vZ is normally used only in transliteration, for
	example \vZanov is in Cyrillic

		\|/
		/|\AHOB.

	I hope you have an USASCII terminal. ;)

	\vS pronounced like s in 'she', \vZ like s in 'vision'.

--
Pekka Pessi	/	ppessi@niksula.hut.fi
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic,soc.culture.europe
From: rune.sandnes@avh.unit.no (Rune Sandnes)
Subject: Re: Nordic seafood
Organization: University of Trondheim, Norway
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 10:00:03 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.11b

> >Sounds interesting - how about some recipies for stuff like
> >deep-fried cod tongue? My mouth is watering!

Ever tried cured whale meat? That is a delicacy I can really
recommend!


  Rune Sandnes                 To Be Is To Do  -  Socrates
  rsandnes@siri.unit.no            To Do Is To Be  -  Sartre
  or rune@swix.ifi.unit.no             Do Be Do Be Do  -  Sinatra
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Understanding language (Was: Re:  <None>)
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 08:08:48 GMT

In article <ANDERS.92Jul28005142@lise4.lise.unit.no>, Anders Christensen writes:
>
>4) Norwegians, when speaking to Swedes, tend to fill in some Swedish
>   words in the conversation, to make it more easy to understand, and
>   thus not 'forcing' Swedes to understand Norwegian. I have seldom
>   heard Swedes do the same thing.

The question is, of course: Do the swedes "hear" that you're filling
in these words?   :-)

---
YuNoHoo
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: SHIMOKOSHI@129.69.123.1 (K. SHIMOKOSHI)
Subject: Visit to Nordic
Organization: University of Stuttgart, IND
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 11:56:25 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20


Hello Netters !

I have a plan to trip for Nordic with my wife, maybe end of next June 1993.
We want to go to Reykjavik in Island, Bergen and Nordkapp in Norway.  In
Nordkapp we want to experience a night with a midnight sun.  And I have known
from my japanese guidbook that we have to book a Hotel in Honningvag half or 1
year before when we want to see a non-setting sun.

Is that right?  Any kind of suggestions would make us happy.

Thanks in advance.

------------------------------------------------------
K.Shimokoshi
Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany
E-male: shimokoshi@nvdv.e-technik.uni-stuttgart.dbp.de
------------------------------------------------------
From: yvesv@wsooti09.info.win.tue.nl (Yves v.d. Vijver)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Cheap hotels in Sweden
Date: 27 Jul 92 10:54:57 GMT
Reply-To: yvesv@info.win.tue.nl
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

Hello,

I am going to travel through Sweden this summer and would like to have some addresses of cheap hotels in any of the following Swedish cities:
Stockholm
Karlstadt
Malmo
Helsingborg
Borlange

Thanks in advance,

Yves van de Vijver,
the Netherlands

(reply through e-mail if possible: yvesv@info.win.tue.nl)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
Subject: Re: Understanding language (Was: Re:  <None>)
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
	<ANDERS.92Jul28005142@lise4.lise.unit.no>
	<TT.92Jul28093402@tarzan.jyu.fi> <1992Jul29.121641.25112@nntp.hut.fi>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:26:48 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.121641.25112@nntp.hut.fi> laku@vipunen.hut.fi
 (Lauri H Eklin) writes:

   >Well, nobody except the esthonians understand finnish but
   >I remember using my 6-years-at-school swedish with the my
   >finnish accent (intonation, rhythm, etc) and some danes told me that
   >it was much more understandable than that of some swede. Maybe it's that
   >I was speaking a bit slower so it was easier to follow what I was
   >trying to express. 

  It appears that it is always easier for non-native speakers of a language
to understand the speech of other non-native speakers than it is to understand
that if native speakers. Listening to a Dane speaking Japanese, I marveled
at the clarity of his diction and the intelligibility of his sentences.

   >BTW, some swedish friends told me that the "finlandssvenska"
   >is the best-sounding version of the group swedish/norwegian/danish..
   >and it was an opinion of not only one or two people!

  Many people like finlandssvenska.



Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: pem@meryl.DoCS.UU.SE (Per-Erik Martin)
Subject: Re: POLL: 8-bit characters?
Organization: Student
	<TT.92Jul15082535@tarzan.jyu.fi> <5145@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:59:11 GMT

In article <5145@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:

>In soc.culture.nordic tt@tarzan.jyu.fi writes:

>>Can you (and would you like to) read these:
>> (aouAOU with " on top),  (a with-ring),  (ae),  (slashed o), 
>> (eth & thorn).

>What I see is:

>(aouAOU with " on top), lower-case a with-ring, uppercase ae, lower-case
>and uppercase slashed o
>and uppercase and lower case edth.

>I do not see:  the uppercase A with-circle, lowercase ae, or the thorns.

>	( 'a 'e 'y 'u 'i 'o "o edth ae thorn)
>and now the Uppercase version of the same:

>	( 'A 'E 'Y 'U 'I 'O "O EDTH AE THORN)

>How do you receive it?

Looks like some rat is chewing on my telephone line... Since I'm running
from home (I do that a lot, especially during the summer) from an Mac
using ZTerm this ISO-stuff doesn't help me much. It's actually making
things worse, it usually comes out as the completely wrong character
(which it does in this case, something stripped the high bit I guess) or
as \3XX characters (since I'm reading news in Emacs).

I suspect I'm not the only one reading news without fancy window systems.
(I do occasionally work at the dept's workstations of course, but I don't
read much news there.)

	~pem

(PS. My excuses to Tapani who has heard all this already through email,
     you can skip this article if you want. Oopps, too late. ;-)   DS.)
--
 |\/|\/|\/| Per-Erik Martin,
 |  |  |/\| Department of Computer Systems, Uppsala University,
 |/\|  |  | Email: pem@minsk.DoCS.UU.SE
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: urf@ki.icl.se (Urban F)
Subject: Re: Understanding language (Was: Re: <None>)
X-Alternate-Address: N.G.U.Fredriksson.swe2001@oasis.icl.co.uk
Organization: None, on USENET I speak only for myself.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 08:35:01 GMT

anders@lise4.lise.unit.no (Anders Christensen) writes:

>In article <1992Jul27.173931.2526@corax.udac.uu.se> andersa@Riga.DoCS.UU.SE (Anders Andersson) writes:
>> In article <ANDERS.92Jul27023440@lise12.lise.unit.no>, anders@lise12.lise.unit.no (Anders Christensen) writes:
>> > It is a test given by military recruits, performed in the seventies.
>> >
>> >               Understands:  Swedish  Danish  Norwegian  Average         
>> >                      --------------------------------------------------
>> > Swedish recruits               -       23%     48%        36%
>> > Danish recruits               49%       -      69%        58%
>> > Norwegian recruits            88%      73%      -         81%
>[...]
>> > Comments on those numbers?

I think this has largely to do with where you can watch TV programs,
and how many live in those areas. Many Swedish population centres
are too far away to allow reception of Danish and Norwegian broad-
casts, but (my estimate) close to half the Danish and Norwegian
populations can watch Swedish TV (if they want).

This is of course not the whole explanation: There is a large reluctance
in Sweden to read books in any other language than Swedish (or English,
French, German...), but I do know the Norwegians read quite a lot of
Swedish books.  I don't know, but this could be due to a larger selection
beeing available in Swedish, or...?
Personally, I read album comics in Danish, (or English) when they haven't
been translated into Swedish.
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