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Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — mixed up genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
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Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — mixed up genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly languages, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Roles: entrepreneur, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer, director of technology, project lead, solutions architect — as well as gardener, factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, student, teacher, language lawyer, traveller, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, philosopher, consultant
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Saudade: Greece defeats Portugal
The first Portuguese word that one should learn is
saudade.The Rough Guide defines it as
a slightly resigned, nostalgic air, and a feeling that the past will always overshadow the possibilities of the future.
The Times:
Portugal [having lost 2-1 the opening game against Greece] now have to seek some kind of salvation from matches with Russia and Spain. They were whistled off the pitch with a shrill and sibilant derision. This resigned acceptance that nothing can ever quite equal the glories of the past has a beauty and truth about it that really ought to find a place in the rest of Europe's former colonial powers. But it's not the mood a sports psychologist seeks to create in a football team at the start of a leading championship.
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