Re: More stupidities
From: O-V R:nen (Otto-Ville.Ronkainen_at_ling.helsinki.fi)
Date: 09/16/04
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Date: 16 Sep 2004 21:00:12 +0300
"*** T. Winter" <***.Winter@cwi.nl> writes:
> There is no reason to put a name in German on a train going from
> Russia to Finland.
I think German used to be the preferred foreign language on the Soviet
railways (used on bilingual tickets in non-CIV international traffic,
for instance), so that could be another explanation.
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