Web Services

The seminar that I'm going to be teaching on Web Services here at the University of Aarhus is now being advertised.

Its a little funny (at least for Americans) to see that the course announcement is mostly in English (because I wrote 99% of it) but surrounded by Danish. However, you see this mixture of English and Danish through a lot of aspects of Danish culture. I've seen it for instance in advertisements (which will sometimes be entirely in English), commericals on the radio, in the names they give retail establishments, and in presentations. For instance, lecture 4 of the Hypermedia class I'm teaching with Niels Olof has its slides entirely in English but when Niels Olof gave the lecture, he presented his part in Danish. You also hear it in Danish pop songs, where most of the lyrics will be in Danish but with occasional English phrases tossed out. "Baby Baby Baby" is apparently a universal lyric. :-)

Anyway, I better go back to preparing the material for my seminar!

Ken