Re: Messy Desks (was: Fluency in one's language, and the ROE)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 9, 2000, 14:01 |
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At 09:44 09.4.2000 -0700, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
> > 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
Om ett rörigt skrivbord tyder på ett rörigt intellekt, vad tyder då ett
tomt skrivbord på?
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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