>>>>> "Stafford" == Stafford A Rau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jonathan> He's from Finland. Finnish has no known association with any Jonathan> other Earthly language. Stafford> Just to be pedantic, Finnish is part of the Finno-Ugrian Stafford> language group, which includes Finnish, Estonian, and Stafford> Hungarian. There are many other languages in that group, Stafford> such as Karelian, Vepsian, and Ludian, but they are spoken Stafford> by small minority groups within the Russian Federation and Stafford> are rapidly dissappearing through cultural assimilation. Just to pierce this whole silly balloon, he is a Swedish-speaking Finn (there is a whole crowd of them). Does "Torvalds" really sound Finnish to you? -- Russell Senior ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug
