Wanted:  Database of Swedish to English words (or English to Swedish).

Is there any such database around?

Cheers,
Mark.

 Below is an article from the Washington Post:

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Ten Years After the Berlin Wall

Wednesday, November 10, 1999; Page A38

TEN YEARS AFTER the Communist side gave up and let Berliners spontaneously knock
down the Berlin Wall, there is still a pervasive sense of wonder that so large
and authentically historic an event could take place so casually. One day the
hated keystone of Moscow’s empire was there. The next day the concrete was
rubble. Suddenly European communism was gone, the Soviet Union was gone, the
Soviet Communist party was gone, Europe was no longer divided, the threat of
nuclear war was gone, and freedom was beginning to ring where it had not rung in
a generation or two or more.

We know that some of the high expectations people held for the end of the Cold
War did not come to pass. The event did not altogether unify the continent it
reunited, did not distribute equally the fruits of a democratic society and a
free-market economy, did not pull all the poison of the nuclear scorpion or
terminate the reflex of military confrontation, did not undo a chamber of
political, ethnic and environmental horrors.

But there was so much more that requires no asterisk of conditionality. After a
great war against a common foe, Americans and Soviets found themselves locked in
a competition of power and ideology in which each side believed that not only
its security and prestige but its values and way of life were at stake. But the
Soviet side was finally hollowed out by a cynical ideology and a system that
could not stand up to post-industrial, information-age challenge. The American
side had come to be widely seen as a society of values honorable and serviceable
for challenge. Ronald Reagan by intuition and Mikhail Gorbachev by logic set the
dissolution on course. Others, including George Bush and Helmut Kohl, saw it
through.

A debate still rages over whether the Cold War was waged at excessive cost and
risk. Some ask whether it had to be waged at all. Ten years is too soon to
assess conclusive judgments of that magnitude. But 10 years is not to soon to
apply the new grant of security, opportunity and dignity that became available
to hundreds of millions of people in many countries. The work of moving on from
the Cold War remains at the core of the global agenda.
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1)
 In the third paragraph, there is a phrase which I cannot understand :"asterisk
of conditionality" having looked up dozens of dictionaries and webpages all in
vain.

2)
In the second paragraph, the expression, "undo a chamber of … horrors" is also
what I can’t get the meaning of.

Could anyone possibly help me with these two questions?
It’ll be really great and lovely if anyone helps me.

Thank you so much in advance.

-June

Can you tell me number 100 in many languages as possible.Please!
Agusia

Hello all,
Could you help me?  I have to write a short letter to my landlord,
requesting 90 days extension of my lease which ends on the last day of
March 2000. The reason of the request is that I am going to buy a house
(still under construction)
English is not my native language and I am still have problems with my
writing.
Could you write a short letter for me? I don’t want to offend my
Landlord by using improper language.

Forever Grateful
Marek

We invite you to visit our web site to learn how. It has lots of
links to other locations dealing with  reading education.

http://www.tiac.net/users/wkrp (For multisensory phonics based
reading programs)

Judith Wisnia and Sharon Kapp (Two speech therapists from Boston)

All presentation and training equipment is available at:
www.saharashop.com

What can I do to don’t suffer in love?? I’m feeling so bad..
Nobody love me…Why???
Someone could explain me?

Hugs, Mari.

Hello there!

I’m looking for someone who lives at Hiroshima in Japan
and can help me to improve my English skill. I’d also like
to help you to learn Japanese if you like.
I hope to hear from someone who would be my friend.

Thank you for reading this message!

Rui

Hi all,
    Just found this newsgroup while searching for an answer to a question a
friend posed last night.  Are there any set rules to determine when ‘y’
functions as a vowel as opposed to a consonant.  The more I pondered this,
the more I was reminded of the justice who said of obscenity — "I can’t
define it but I know it when I see it."
Thanks

–
Keith A. Miller
—He who steals my identity steals my debts.—

I’m interested in teaching English as a second language in South or Central
America. I have extensive experience in TESL here in Canada. I wonder if
anyone has recently worked there.
I am connected to all the appropriate sites on the Web but would like to
discuss with someone who is there or has been there. Which contries are the
best, the worse.
Thank you.