Hey Erno?

[nws01 0]

What's up with the secret message in your posts?

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Vaikka näetkin lukea tämän, et todennäköisesti kuitenkaan ymmärrä tästä sanaakaan.

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[ernokaikkonen 0]

It's only function is to fuck with the minds of curious americans

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[nacmacfeegle 0]

Well it just fucked wit the mind of an innocent (?) Scotsman, looking for an on-line finnish translator.....bah!

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[jfields 0]

The only Finnish -> English translator I found got this far:

Although näetkin rank et this et probably sanaakaan. however confuse hence sanaakaan.

So basically, it looks like you are talking in Finnish about confusing us. My wlid-ass guess is that this:

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It's only function is to fuck with the minds of curious americans

is not only an explantion, but a translation as well.

Erno?

[ernokaikkonen 0]

"Vaikka näetkin lukea tämän, et todennäköisesti kuitenkaan ymmärrä tästä sanaakaan."

"Although you can see and read this, you probably don't understand a word."

Finnish is a ridiculously difficult language to translate because the endings of the words keep changing according to person, tense, and a number of other variables. That's probably the reason why there aren't many attempts at building an online translator.

[jfields 0]

After "Intertran"'s attempt to translate your phrase, it really didn't make me want to buy their software.

Of course, English is pretty stupid in a lot of ways to. I mean, two. Ooops, make that too. All of our rules have exceptions. And a lot of the exceptions have exceptions. Dumb.

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Of course, English is pretty stupid in a lot of ways to. I mean, two. Ooops, make that too. All of our rules have exceptions. And a lot of the exceptions have exceptions. Dumb.

Yeah like the most simple example 'i before e except after c' ohh but not in this word and this word and this word...but you know its still a rule... apparently english is one of the hardest languages to learn?

[bbarnhouse 0]

i before e except after c or saying an a as in neighbor and weigh..........its no wonder I cant spall......course I do alot better in Japanese

[happythoughts 0]

George Bernard Shaw was a big proponent of Esperanto. He used this as an example:
In English, if you take the "gh" from enough, the "o" from women, the "ti" from nation, and put them together, it is spelled "ghoti". It is pronounced the same as "fish".

[cop 0]

Jipii Erno! Aletaan vaan heittämään herjaa in finska. Siis silleen välillä, kuten toi mun "Juuhei".
This was private message to Erno
Juuhei!

"You can call me Mike"

[riggerrob 643]

Yes, english is a complex language with dozens of exceptions to rules.
It took me about 14 years to learn english, another 7 to learn french, but only 1 year to learn german.
After that Spanish was easy.
English may have started as a germanic language, but ever since the Normans (french/vikings) arrived in 1066, the english language has been bombarded with outside influences. Oh, and then there were all those colonies that contributed. If you listen to a Canadian sailor (British Navy wannabee) he uses more hindi words than germanic words.

[mouth 0]

Didn't your mothers ever tell you that was rude????

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Hot Mama
At least you know where you stand even if it is in a pile of shit.

[ernokaikkonen 0]

>After "Intertran"'s attempt to translate your phrase, it really
>didn't make me want to buy their software.

Yeah, it wasn't too convincing...

>apparently english is one of the hardest languages to learn?

I wouldn't think so. English wouldn't be in such a widespread use if it was particularly difficult. Of course it does help that there isn't any shortage of practice-material; all I have to do is turn on my TV. Half the programs shown here are in english.

Try Finnish if you want a difficult language: the already mentioned word-endings will be fun to memorize:

For example, the verb "to jump" in english, has let's see... 3 different forms for the persons and tenses; jump, jumps, jumped. Pretty simple, right?

In Finnish on the other hand... the verb "hypätä" has 13 forms for different persons and tenses:
hyppään, hyppäät, hyppää, hyppäämme, hyppäätte, hyppäävät, hyppäsin, hyppäsit, hyppäsi, hyppäsimme, hyppäsitte, hyppäsivät, hypänneet

Have fun at Finnish 101....

Erno

[ernokaikkonen 0]

Pidetään ne PM:t ihan vaan privaatteina, on täällä muitakin suomalaisia...

and mouth; I haven't seen you say that to Sangiro when he posts in Afrikaans...