Re: So it is true...


On 1-Dec-2005, "Seán O'Leathlóbhair" <jwlawler@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message <1133429997.288238.49370@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 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/

Notice that that site is targeted towards North Americans.

> Finland is a member of the Nordic Union.

Exactly. In general, people from that part of the world distinguish
between "Nordic", which includes Finland, and "Scandinavian", which
doesn't.

As a USAmerican who grew up thinking of "Scandinavia" as referring
specifically to the Scandinavian peninsula, it took me a while to
realize that for the natives the term also includes Denmark.

--
Jim Heckman
.

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