Re: So it is true...


rcaetano wrote:
> Seán O'Leathlóbhair wrote:
> [snip]
> > A Danish friend went a pan-Scandinavian conference once. The
> > politically correct instructions said that delegates should speak in
> > their own languages. They were struggling even before the Finns
> > arrived.
>
> But what where Finns doing in a pan-Scandinavian conference?
>
> Rafael Caetano, because the thread is unusually calm

Why wouldn't they be there? It wasn't a conference on language.
Something to do with government.

A google for Scandinavia gives this as the first result:
http://www.goscandinavia.com/

Finland is a member of the Nordic Union.

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Seán O'Leathlóbhair

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