linguistic messing about

[dchenes]

One of the things I have to keep track of for everybody who's getting promoted is a list of comparable people. Most of the time I get names, but not degrees or titles (it would help if the committee would actually send me the lists when I ask for them). I've spent a good chunk of this morning so far trying to track down degrees and titles for comparable people in Finland and Norway. It's all sorts of fun trying to figure out which link on a page in Norwegian might get you where you want to be going. I'm just linguistically competent enough to try it. I didn't try it in Finnish, but Finnish is incomprehensible, and their link to the English pages was easier to find, too.