June 24th, 2004

At least it's easier than learning Finnish

Finnish Radio station YLE offers weekly news summaries in classical Latin. Because practically nobody outside Finland would understand the news in Finnish… In my random travels around the Internet, I stumbled across this article on the subject of teaching Finnish to foreigners: Finnish’s status as an official EU language has created demand for interpreters. Finns have long accepted that they will have to learn the languages of others, considering the language’s comparatively minor exposure on the world stage. But now, others will have to learn Finnish! I occasionally toy with the idea of learning Finnish myself but each time conclude that it would be too much work. Though I do have as a long-term goal to learn the major modern Germanic languages. In probable order of study: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Afrikaans, and Icelandic.

(Hey, I left out Danish.)

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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