zwicky@osu-eddie.UUCP (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) (12/11/85)
Apology for the delay - the original posting got carried by hand, and then the response, and then finals ... But anyway; you may remember back last week sometime, a posting in a foreign language with the subject "Posted for a friend" and next to no explanation. There follows, a reply for the general edification of anyone who understood the original. Pese enne suu puhtaks kui ra"a"kima hakkad. Kui viisakalt ra"a"gid siis ehk vastan ka. A note: I know for a fact that there are on the net, reading this newsgroup, speakers of Finnish, in Norway, and that the net, in some form reaches Helsinki. Due to the likelihood that there are rather more people who understand you than you think, Rot-13 is probably safer. Elizabeth D.Zwicky
andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson) (12/17/85)
In article <980@osu-eddie.UUCP> zwicky@osu-eddie.UUCP (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) writes: >Pese enne suu puhtaks kui ra"a"kima hakkad. Kui viisakalt ra"a"gid >siis ehk vastan ka. > >A note: I know for a fact that there are on the net, reading this newsgroup, >speakers of Finnish, in Norway, and that the net, in some form reaches >Helsinki. Due to the likelihood that there are rather more people who >understand you than you think, Rot-13 is probably safer. To be pedantic, the mentioned posting was not written in Finnish but in Estonian. A friend of mine who speaks this language found it rather amusing (it merely consisted of childish insults). Now he is on the net too. -- Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden Phone: +46 18 183170 UUCP: andersa@kuling.UUCP (...!{seismo,mcvax}!enea!kuling!andersa)