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Messy Desks (was: Fluency in one's language, and the ROE)

From:DOUGLAS KOLLER <laokou@...>
Date:Sunday, April 9, 2000, 16:44
From: "BP Jonsson" > >

> In Sweden we have the saying "If a messy desk implies a messy intellect, > then what does an empty desk imply?" I take recourse to it quite often,
to
> which my wife answers something along the lines of "neatly non-empty > desk".
Might we have the saying in the original Swedish? Kou