Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Oddmund, I know that you are right, my post was just an attempt to provoke the Finns on the list ;-) Although I must say that I believe that the correct usage is in fact Scandinavia for DK, S and N since and Norden further includes Iceland and Finland. I also equally well know that the Finns consider themselves Scandinavian, even if their language most certainly does not belong to that language family. I agree with you even more about the silliness of paying hundreds of Euros extra for the various special editions. But if it helps Leica survive financially, then I'm all for it (as long as someone else is doing the buying)! Cheers, Nathan nomansland@altern.org wrote: > Jeu 12 déc 2002 23:23:08 +0100 > Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> a écrit: > > >>Four? There are three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway and >>Sweden. Throw in Finland and Iceland and you have the Nordic >>countries. So which is the fourth non-Scandinavian flag? Finnish? > > > No, geographically only Norway and Sweden covers the Scandinavian > peninsula - Denmark belongs to the European continent. Politically and > culturally the terms Scandinavia and the Nordic countries are used > indifferently for the same unity - "Norden" - Iceland, Norway, Denmark > (Faroes/Greenland), Sweden and Finland. Historically even the Baltic > states belonged to the Nordic unity. > > This is probably not very interesting in the context. What does it > change if it is the Finnish, or the Islandic flag that is printed on > this totally ridiculous Leica edition? Because it has to be considered > as another "special edition" - even if it probably just was thought as a > "Demo series" - when some people manage to make business with it. > That is the interesting, amazing (and once again ridiculous) part: > these tiny printed, or engraved (?) flags cost 200$ !!! > > Oddmund > > > >>Håkan Dennersten wrote: >> >>>A "scandinavian" m7 is now released also. It has the four >>>scandinavian flags printed on top. It is sold in the shops for 3200 >>>$ the regular M7 is sold for 3000 $ >>> >>>/HD >> > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html