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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color:#00681C">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span><br>

Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L Language use</span><br>

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English (and Spanish) are the languages most used and known in the US I guess. For

international events a multilingual façade is created though. As e.g. 2 weeks

ago at the ProMat event in Chicago

in the Southern block of the Convention center.</p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">The entrance as seen from my

hotel room:</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/chic/cc.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/chic/cc.jpg</a></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">The panel right at the main

gate:</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/chic/panel.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/chic/panel.jpg</a></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I can't identify all of the

languages:</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Welcome!! English</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Bienvenue French</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Welkom Dutch</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">?? Arabic?</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">?? Chinese?</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Välkomna Swedish</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">?? Korean?</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Bemvindos Portuguese</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Willkommen German</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Bienvenidos Spanish</p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">The directory had some pages

in a variety of languages:</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">p 14-15 General Information -

English</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">16-17 Informations générales

- French</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">18-19 Allgemeine

Informationen - German</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">20-21 Información general -

Spanish</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">22-23 Chinese characters

mixed wit kana like symbols - Japanese?</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">24-25 Pure Chinese

characters - Chinese?</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">26-27 Informazioni generali

- Italian</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">28-29 Allmän Information -

Swedish</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">This choice of languages is

a bit different from what one finds at the entrance gate.</p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">The US Commercial department

had a separated area for assisting foreign visitors. I knew the system from 2

years ago and I used it every day again for a free breakfast (large buns of

heavy tight bread with a slight cinnamon taste and covered with some white

molten sugar, (they call this "Danish" !!), with a cup of coffee.).</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I don't know for what

languages they had interpreters, most language servicing clearly was for

visitors with an Asiatic look.</p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Roger</p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:

R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:

Language use</p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Hi, Roger!</p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">You’re pretty close identifying

the languages on the panel. Here’s my two pennies’ worth:</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">?? Korean?</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">It’s Japanese in all kana: <span class="japan">ようこそ</span><span class="japan"> </span><span class="japan">(yokosō)</span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="japan"> </span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="japan">As far as I can know, Swedish <i>välkomna</i> is the infinitive form; “Welcome!”

should be <i>Välkommen!</i></span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="japan"> </span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="japan">The Arabic phrase appears to be reversed. It ought to be </span><span class="japan"><span dir="RTL" style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="AR-SA">أهلاً و سهلاً</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="japan"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></span><span class="japan">(Ahlan wa sahlan).</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">The food you describe sounds

like what we call “cinnamon role.” A “Danish (pastry)” is what in Northern German

is called <i>Kopenhagener, </i>in Austrian German <i>Golatschen</i>, in Danish and

Norwegian wienerbrød, in Swedish wienerbröd, and in Finnish viineri.

Thus it’s “Copenhagen

pastry,” “Danish pastry” or “Viennese bread,” depending on whom you ask. American

“Danish” in this sense can be pluralized to “Danishes” (“danish” – “danishes”).</p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Regards,<br>

Reinhard/Ron<br>

Seattle, USA</p>

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