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To: thames_sider who wrote (90468)	10/17/2008 5:09:05 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541925

"Ten thousand Swedes ran through the weeds, Chased by one Norwegian. Ten thousand more ran to the shore, In the battle of Copenhagen." ;>)

To: thames_sider who wrote (90468)	10/17/2008 6:34:19 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 541925

TS - Your history is all correct, I believe, but really, if you have one Scandinavian country ruling another, you're not talking about an outside culture becoming an influence. The Germans have messed with the Danes, as you say, but if you go to Denmark, you can see that they are all Danish through and through. Norway became independent from Sweden in 1905, if I'm not mistaken. The Finns are a whole separate issue. There are Swedish-speaking Finns, and Finnish-speaking ones. Though speakers of Swedish can understand Norwegian, pretty much, nobody understand Finnish except the Finns. The Finnish language is, according to the people who study such things, related most closely to Hungarian, and the two languages sit off by themselves, on a tiny branch of the European language tree. Finns are generally taciturn and bleak. Also, there is a lot of nudity on Finnish broadcast television, but it is quite artfully done. What were we talking about? - Allen