tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post7455361046839491612..comments2024-02-03T10:27:22.640+00:00Comments on Nordic Voices in Translation: Land of one language?David McDuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-5802996510908543162010-01-09T14:00:51.557+00:002010-01-09T14:00:51.557+00:00Fenno-Swedes are probably the greatest masters of ...Fenno-Swedes are probably the greatest masters of framing of debate in terms favourable to themselves and presenting themselves as the victim... I have spent half my life debating them and one has to always be on guard for all kinds of attempts to smuggle in unwarranted assumptions, false logic and hypocrisy about treatment of speakers of different languages...<br /><br />In particular, their ownTiuskea Rakkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12060058590319683022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-68777321965167343262009-11-11T10:19:18.958+00:002009-11-11T10:19:18.958+00:00While it's true that Perussuomalaiset represen...While it's true that Perussuomalaiset represent a conservative tendency in modern Finland, the issues raised by all sides in the debate about the status of Swedish (and Russian) do have a familiar historical ring. In fact, EU or no EU, one sometimes has a sense of listening to the public debates of over a hundred years ago.<br /><br />But for all their demagoguery, Perussuomalaiset are David McDuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-9566586023457973672009-11-10T23:57:00.833+00:002009-11-10T23:57:00.833+00:00True finns party have always hold the flag of the ...True finns party have always hold the flag of the extreme nationalism. It is part ot their agenda to blame on everything "foreigner" as an explanation for Finland troubles. In real life, the true is that Swedish is disappearing on a steady way. As you mention, Swedish speaking Finns are rather fluent and can indeed speak ¨proper¨ finnish. If that would be the natural flow of the events,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com