Re: Was: REQ: Star Shape. Now: Funny off topics...

brian odom wrote:
> 
> spu...@aol.com writes:
> 
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> > is it the "any" key?  I'm still looking for that one?  :)
> 
> oh boy...  almost as dumb as the people who think mice are foot pedals or
> speakers and cd-rom drives are cupholders!
> 

Tust me Brian - she has seen a computer before! :D

> >Well, I read the post regarding "W" and Sweden...  Funny, but isn't there
> a "w" in the name Sweden?  That must make you Svedes!    This must truly 
> depend on the foreign language.  Since I'm foreign language illiterate, I 
> will pass on this one.
> 
> english has taken over the world and the fact is that many countries do
> not call themselves what we call them.
> for example, we say Italy, but it's really Italia. and the french say
> L'Italie.

"Italien" in Swedish

> the french say L'Allemande, the germans say Deuschland, and we
> say Germany. 

"Tyskland" in Swedihs

> the french even call London, Londres!  we say United States,
> the french say Etats-Unis, and the spanish say Estados-Unidos.

"USA" in Swedish

> 
> not bad for normal everyday dumb american to know this stuff.  :)

:)

> 
> so why is sweden spelled with a 'w' and pronounced with a v (sveden), but
> sven is spelled with a 'v'??

No, you get this part wrong, (you should have read the reply to that
post).
Sweden is called "Sweden" in English and "Sverige" in Swedish (and there
is no 'w' in "Sverige"...) :D

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Veronica
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )