[rescue] Digital server 7000r

Sheldon T. Hall shel at cmhcsys.com
Fri Dec 13 19:21:46 CST 2002


"Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez" <lefa at ucsc.edu> said

[quoting someone]

> > Bjork is from new zeeland..... Jummy
> >
>
> Nope, she is from ICELAND... another 'land... not that it usually matters
> to most Americans :-)....... just a tiny 5K+ mile difference.

Not to mention that rather fewer people speak Icelandic than speak English.

On the other hand, unlike English, Icelandic has hardly changed in the last,
oh, 1000 years or so.  A modern Icelander has a lot easier time reading the
Sagas that we Anglophones do reading Chaucer.

-Shel



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