21 Sep
2012
21 Sep
'12
3:50 a.m.
tor 2012-09-20 klockan 16:12 +0100 skrev Liam Proven:
On 20 September 2012 11:22, Stefan Skoglund
<stefan.skoglund at agj.net> wrote:
What is more depressing is the chasm between danish and swedish speakers
(DAMN Anglosaxians !!)
Swedes has forsaken the language of the southern province (Denmark)
because we now listen too much to the language of that other province
(who are we kidding...)
ons 2012-09-19 klockan 18:54 -0700 skrev Fred
Cisin:
I just love the deep respect and affection the Nordic countries have
for one another. ;?)
http://satwcomic.com/we-should-be-friends
http://satwcomic.com/stop-talking
http://satwcomic.com/nordics-like-fish
http://satwcomic.com/norway-in-denmark
http://satwcomic.com/language-lesson
http://satwcomic.com/nordic-brothers
And on the alphabets...
http://satwcomic.com/nothing-is-perfect On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Al Kossow wrote:
The old swedish standard for distinguishing zero (0) was with a slash (?
which is a big ?.)
That convention clashes with the norwegian ?.
? (swedish) = ? (norwegian) There was an attempt at establishing what can
roughly be described as an upside down Q
for a slashed O. The only example I know of where someone used this are in line printer
listings
from SDS in the late 60's. I would have to do some serious digging in magazines to
find who was
pushing this as a standard. They end up looking like misformed 8's.
It does terrible things to OCR.
Microsoft's first attempt at OCR customer order forms used it!
Haven't seen it since.
In the 1960s, I remember a few old farts who slashed O's (to differentiate
them from zeroes!) One of the teachers that I had in 1967 used to do it.
He never liked me, because I asked a lot of weird questions.
He was one of my favorite teachers, because he could answer those weird
questions!
I assume that they are all dead now. When I began teaching in 1983, he
had recently passed, and they gave me his old desk!