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From: harald@kvvax4.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.travel,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Usenet Phrase Guide--request for help
Message-ID: <248@kvvax4.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 12:53:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 12:53:14 1986
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Reply-To: harald@kvvax4.UUCP (Harald Eikrem)
Organization: Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, P.O. 25, N-3601 Norway.
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anita@utastro.UUCP (Anita Cochran) writes:
>We found that anywhere we went in Sweden, Denmark or
>Norway everyone knew English since they must start learning it in 3rd
>grade.

This is about true.  I bet almost any person in this country at least
understands "thank you".  And for the language question, "Do you speak
English?", if someone dont answer reasonably to this, then either
he/she dont speak the language, or you're in Finland  :-).
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Harald Eikrem, a/s Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, CTG4 dept, Kongsberg, Norway
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Harald Eikrem, a/s Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, CTG4 dept, Kongsberg, Norway
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