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- From: f33012l@puukko.hut.fi (Janne Kivel{)
- Subject: Re: Rumpelstilchen (was Finnish: A world language?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.130237.6665@cs.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@cs.hut.fi (Uutis Ankka)
- Reply-To: f33012l@puukko.hut.fi (Janne Kivel{)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Nov15.154645.24377@kth.se>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:02:37 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- tomas_e@LINK.Physchem.KTH.SE writes:
-
- >On the subject of useless language instruction in high school, I
- >actually heard that tale during my high-school German. Wasn't the
- >little feller called "Rumpelstilchen"? And when the queen told him
- >"Heisst du vielleicht Rumpelstilchen?" on her third and final try to get
- >her child back from this not-so-pleasant creature of the woods, he
- >replied "Der Teufel hat dir das gesagt!" and tore himself apart from
- >head to toe, or?
- >
- >The sens morale of the story is, that if Finnish had been an offical
- >language of Sweden (for one reason or another), I would probably never
- >have studied German, and then I would not have known about
- >Rumpelstilchen, and frankly, that would have been an unbearable loss of
- >cultural enlightment! :-)
-
- Tomas's posting simply contains too many ifs to make any point at all.
-
- If I were allowed to study German instead of Swedish in high school, I would
- probably have heard of "Rumpelstilchen" too. But in that case I wouldn't
- be able to watch Cafe Norrk|ping on TV4. What an unbearable loss!
-
- Seriously though, now that I know Swedish enough to understand most of
- what is said and written in that language, I don't really mind at all.
- Our friends at the other side of Gulf of Bothnia don't have the privilege
- of understanding Finnish and therefore their knowledge of Finnish people
- and culture tends to be more superficial.
-
- Janne Kivel{
-
- "N{m{kin pusakat vain viisysiysi. Ja kaikista valtakunnan..."
- ----- Simo vaatehuoneelta
-