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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by ane on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:43AM (#12549226)
He speaks Finnish fluently, I've videos of his lectures about Linux from the 90s at Helsinki University. Had I not known who he was, I would have not guessed he was of the Swedish-speaking minority (either that or I wasn't paying attention, I saw them ten years ago). You can find some videos on YouTube, no doubt.
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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by akavi on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @01:49PM (#12550517)
Interesting! I'd read an interview where he claimed his proficiency was noticeably non-native[0], but maybe he was just being self-effacing.

[0] http://www.linuxveda.com/2011/11/02/which-is-linus-torvalds-...

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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by ptaipale on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:16PM (#12550794)
Linus has excellent proficiency in Finnish; his intonation is distinctly that of a Swedish-speaking native but that is just a matter of style.

But then there are Finnish rock stars who lived a year in Stockholm and then pretended they've forgotten all about Finnish language. (Andy McCoy of Hanoi Rocks, I mean).

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