From: tgpedersen
Message: 21793
Date: 2003-05-12
>A very NewWorldish view. What is that thing culture that is
> Aquila:
> >I am myself a Norwegian, but I amire to some extend the finnish
> >language and the grammatical logic of that languages.
>
> Well, being that I'm part Swedish (greatgrandparents from
> Stockholm), this List is a veritable smorgasbord of Scandinavian
> pride, if I do say! :)
>
>
> >Finland is the most inovating nation in the world in the field of
> >electronics (Nokia) and is a leader in design and architecture.
> >
> >And- actually - I think this is partly due to the very flexibel
> >logical capabilities of the finnish language.
>
> As wonderfully romantic as this notion is, I would be more inclined
> to think that a culture has far more power over how individuals
> grow to see the world than a language does. Language is afterall
> influenced by its culture. Whoa, but then I suddenly started
> thinking about 1984's NewSpeak...
>
> http://www.ecoglobe.org.nz/ecostory/newspeak.htm
>