Helsinki.
One thing leads to another and now I’m drinking beer at a bar in Helsinki.
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September 24th, 2006 at 13:07:16
you should have told me in advance so I could tell you all about the best bars and saunas in helsinki. I have been there a couple of times you know. hehe…
September 24th, 2006 at 18:08:14
Yes, we were told the legend of a Swede named Klas. They even sing songs about you over here.
September 25th, 2006 at 21:11:27
I thought beers like Foster’s would be called Fosteeriliïppäällaa or something similar, over there. Maybe I’m just prejudiced.
September 26th, 2006 at 21:53:40
You’re sort of right, actually, they do all kinds of strange stuff to proper nouns.
September 27th, 2006 at 09:47:30
The reason for this is that the Finnish language do not have a single preposition. instead they have something like 16 cases (norwegian: kasus).
example:
Haloatku norlalainen makkaraa?
= Would you like to taste my norwegian sausage?
same meaning in 1/3 of the words. impressive, eh?
K
September 27th, 2006 at 10:40:43
I had a follow-up to that comment that was so dirty, I would have had to delete my own comments after posting it.
September 23rd, 2007 at 13:00:33
As a Finn, I’d like to do some corrections.
Firstly, we do have not only prepositions but POSTpositions too.
‘Would you like to taste my norwegian sausage’ would be in finnish ‘haluaisitko maistaa norjalaista makkaraani’.