Re: REQ:New Year in different languages
From Veronica Karlsson <aci...@earthling.net>
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· 4 Jan 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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Ool wrote: > Veronica Karlsson wrote: > > Peter Punk wrote: > > > Zweeds: God jul och ett gott nytt ar! > > "Merry Christmas and a happy new one-hundred square metres!" :-D > > Spelled correctly: > > "God jul och gott nytt �r!" > > Yeah, but that's not ASCII, is it? Wouldn't you have to write: > > "God jul och gott nytt aar!" > But that wouldn't be Swedish... (Somebody hearing that would probably think you got some champaigne in your throat and making a mental note to not shout and drink at the same time) :-D I guess one just have to make some sort of judgment of when to break such "rules". E.g. if your name is "�sa" then it doesn't really make sense to write it as "Asa" (that sounds like a suitable name for a vulture!). -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
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