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RE: China



On 28 Jan 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> the funniest convention failure I know of is "dør" in Norwegian (meaning 
> "door"); if you apply the "ø" -> "oe" mapping, it becomes "doer", meaning 
> "toilets".

Interesting. I had no idea. There's nothing of that kind in Swedish, at
least not that I can think of.

I guess it wasn't a Norwegian who invented the convention.

/Magnus