Hi, newbie from Denmark

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Dear Xanadu-

I too am new, and this place seems quite wonderful. I hope you find what you are seeking.

As to the specific questions of your opening post, though, I am in no position to advise you.

I too lurked, but plunged in far more quickly, and have been appologizing regularly, too.

When I think of Denmark, I think of Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) first, a Danish composer of orchestral and piano works, with which I feel a very strong kinship. He was a loner and tormented soul. A familiar story.

In which part of Germany did you grow up? East or West?

I envy your language skills.

Best wishes.


Alan

Thank you so much for answering my questions and explaining this "Jante Law", I'd never heard of it, I knew about the Japanese, (I have a japanese Aunt, and she's old school and must "Save Face" also, no matter what.) But I did't know that suppressing the individual was also practiced there. (Even unwritten, it still oblivously affects you in a lot of aspects of your life.) Tell your sister to "Go For It.Live the Dream" See, thats my individualistic american attitude coming out. And since I live in Alaska (which is "Ultra-Laid-Back", extreamly diverse and accepting of others) I would proably have to move also. But welcome again to WP, it seems to have its own unwritten rule also. "Just be yourself, no matter who you are, its o.k." (At least thats the vibe I get from everyone)

Hi, nice to meet you!
I'm not sure what SML is. Does it stand for "Service Modeling Language" or "Standard ML" or something else here?

You're right in that it does more harm than good, no doubt - I will have to read up on that book - found it at Project Gutenberg.

Admittedly I'm a bit prejudiced against the US sometimes, but this is a very good thing - I hope it stays that way.

That's right, "hallo" will certainly be understood, though in this part of the country it would be more common to say "hej" (pronounced exactly the same as "hi" in English).
But there are regional differences even in this small a country, and why would you want to apologize had you been wrong, you wouldn't have hurt me nor others I guess
By the way, Dutch is very much like a combination of my languages, actually I feel it resembles a mix of Danish, German and English (mostly the latter two) - though I wouldn't say that to my Dutch colleagues at work, they might be intimidated. But I've read a book in Dutch and had no problem making sense of it, reading it is not hard for me - understanding spoken Dutch is something completely different, though.

Sorry for mixing different kinds of languages in one sentence - I always see so much similarity between them. I'm not aware of any country where they speak Python, but if one existed it would have a very logical and easily understood population, and I'd move there immediately (or any country where they speak an other programming language for that matter)

Computers have been my main interest/"obsession" for a long time, since I became a teenager about 12 years ago they have occupied my life (but I wouldn't call it an obsession, because that word is so negative - learning about computers helped me get my current job and hasn't done me any harm, except being nerdy in most people's eyes, but that's okay). Before that, I was very interested in homeopatic medicine, and before that, I collected stamps for some years. Besides these main interests I've had lots of what I call "side interests", which come and go, usually accompanying me for half a year before I switch to something else. Among these are human languages (I learned a bit of Hindi, and learned and almost completely forgot a bit of Spanish and Latin), ponies, Anime and mangas, drugs (legal and illegal), goa trance music, and several others I can't remember now... sometimes an old interest blossoms up again, but mostly, I find something new. It's funny how these side interests can feel completely sincere for some time, just to "fade out" in time - often people doubt my original interest when that happens, but the way I feel it my interest was really extremely sincere, at least in the beginning.

North-west, close to the Danish border.

Judging from your post you don't need to envy me

Coming to think of it, you liked pictures of Denmark - now I don't know what these showed, but have a look at these pictures of the neighboring countries. These are so much larger and less inhabited than Denmark, and I envy them a lot for their beautiful, unspoiled countryside.

Norway:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gail/650409/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/krogen/208102976/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/good_day/236094065/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/krogen/114584718/

Sweden:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fxdirect/64681535/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncommon/483961758/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/josse-gr/272457160/


Never heard about it before, that a comparable social rule exists over there, but I've been quite interested in Japanese culture due to my interest in Anime movies, and now that I think of it there seem to be some similarities between their and our culture, in that aspect.


Yeah, and a very positive trait, which has brought your country to where it is today - we could certainly learn from that, and those who try usually succeed I think, though at first they have to manage to live as outcasts. Yet another reason why we Aspies could rule European society in a few years *daydreaming* Just kidding.


Me too, it is totally uncommon to find such a welcoming place. I guess the internet is a very natural place for many of us. I even chickened out from going to a local Aspie meeting for the first time today, and decided to come here instead (that's supposed to be a compliment).

Thanks again for everybody saying hi!

Best wishes,
Xanadu