Re: Messy Desks (was: Fluency in one's language, and the ROE)
| From: | Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 9, 2000, 17:14 |
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On 9 April, BP Jonsson wrote:
>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?
I _like_ it! I already have a "waiting-list" of people
I'd like to tell it to! :-)
Might we also have a phonemic transcription for those of us
who don't know Swedish, but who would like to attempt to quote
it in the original anyway?
Dan Sulani
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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.
A word is an awesome thing.