Per Jessen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Linux or Linus? Linus Torvalds IS Finnish, but quite probably also speaks Swedish. As I recall, he lived in a Swedish area of Finland, so by nationality, he's Finnish, but by language he's Swedish,
A "Swedish area of Finland"? - that's like calling Hamburg "a German area of Denmark". Or York "an English area of Denmark". Let's not go there :-)
I was referring to an area of Finland, where there are lots of Swedes. However, I've since read he's from Helsinki, which is a Finnish area of Sweden. ;-) Actually, there are many areas of Europe and elsewhere, where national borders include populations that are from neighbouring contries. IIRC, there's even a piece of Italy on the Swiss side of a border lake. Also, at one time there was some English territory in France, in addition to the channel islands. Even the United States, includes a place called "Texas". ;-)