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Posted on 12/3/20 at 2:29 pm to TaderSalad
frick China
Posted on 12/3/20 at 2:29 pm to NakaTrash
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Which one has hotter chicks you could one day try to pick up?
Wales (Welsh)
All day...every day. If the Air Force had a base in Wales I would have never left the UK
Posted on 12/3/20 at 2:39 pm to fr33manator
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I would love to go there before I die. We still have family there
You 100% should! Nothing like being at home. Would be neat to try and track them down, maybe through ancestry . com or some site like that.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 2:45 pm to soccerfüt
Mandarin is cool because I think Chinese culture is fascinating. Have zero interest in learning Spanish.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 2:47 pm to Old Money
Thank you for the information on Icelandic!
Hmmm I know of the first word, and in Icelandic would be written as Fiskur. But I see how in written form there’s no way to derive the meaning of rhe words
Hmmm I know of the first word, and in Icelandic would be written as Fiskur. But I see how in written form there’s no way to derive the meaning of rhe words
Posted on 12/3/20 at 2:56 pm to Shaken not Stirred
Finnish women have prettier feet
Posted on 12/3/20 at 2:58 pm to The Silverback
A very wise man from Wales once told me, "Yngyddy 'n canu y Eisteddfel nae Llangoehth." Not sure it means anything, but that's what he said.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 3:13 pm to Old Money
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You 100% should! Nothing like being at home. Would be neat to try and track them down, maybe through ancestry . com or some site like that.
I don’t have to track them down even, my grandmother has them on Facebook. Last time they went they met and stayed with them.
Her mother came over from Finland on the sister ship to the titanic as a small girl. Her grandfather and uncle had come here for work, then sent for her.
But the work fell through and so her (mother’s) father and brother went back to Finland, right as she was coming to America.
Their ships literally passed in the night.
Then WW1 happened and she was stuck here, and was taken in by another Finnish family here. Ended up marrying one of their sons.
But she never saw her family back home again.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 3:18 pm to Jim Rockford
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Finnish is an actual language that people use. Welsh is just for hobbyists and Welshmen with a political axe to grind.
Late one night when sleep meds I took were not working to put me asleep I was watching a cop series set in Welsh, and after speaking English for awhile they went to interview someone about a crime and started speaking in Welsh for entire scene for first time. I started thinking to myself WTF how i am understanding this and felt like i was in a Twin Peaks episode having a weird vision until I broke through haze of sleep meds and remembered i was just reading the subtitles/cc I always have on. Freaking sonata.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 3:24 pm to The Silverback
Icelandic:
So you can read the Sagas in their original language
So you can impress folks from the rest of Scandinavia whose
languages are based on Icelandic
So you can visit Iceland for the volcanoes, the midnight sun, the countless numbers of waterfalls, and the black sand beaches (as well as very nice people).
So you can read the Sagas in their original language
So you can impress folks from the rest of Scandinavia whose
languages are based on Icelandic
So you can visit Iceland for the volcanoes, the midnight sun, the countless numbers of waterfalls, and the black sand beaches (as well as very nice people).
Posted on 12/3/20 at 3:25 pm to real turf fan
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So you can impress folks from the rest of Scandinavia whose languages are based on Icelandic
You’ll find it’s the other way around my baw. Icelandic evolved from other Nordic languages, much like Faroese
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So you can visit Iceland for the volcanoes, the midnight sun, the countless numbers of waterfalls, and the black sand beaches (as well as very nice people).
I’d love to check out Thingvellir
The Drowning Pool
This post was edited on 12/3/20 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 12/3/20 at 4:07 pm to fr33manator
Thingvellir is a short drive east of the Capital. When I was there the first time there were no tourist signs, no paths, it was just there a crack in the earth's crust caused by the Mid Atlantic Ridge spread apart zone. And for centuries, people would ride their ponies to that place and make the laws that governed themselves.
Most roads weren't paved then either and the road south of the big glaciers didn't exist.
Awesome to contemplate that some volcanic eruptions wouldn't break through the ice, but the water coming out from under Vatnajokul would increase in volume..
Most roads weren't paved then either and the road south of the big glaciers didn't exist.
Awesome to contemplate that some volcanic eruptions wouldn't break through the ice, but the water coming out from under Vatnajokul would increase in volume..
Posted on 12/3/20 at 5:12 pm to The Silverback
Sort of a fun fact... JRR Tolkien supposedly leaned pretty heavily on Finnish to construct his Elvin language for Lord of the Rings.
wikipedia
Also, your query made me stumble on to the omniglot dot com website. Here's the entry for both Finnish & Welsh, with a little info on numbers of users, how the language might differ in writing vs speaking, as well as additional resources at the bottom of each page. I'll link them here in case they have any use to you.
Finnish
Welsh
wikipedia
Also, your query made me stumble on to the omniglot dot com website. Here's the entry for both Finnish & Welsh, with a little info on numbers of users, how the language might differ in writing vs speaking, as well as additional resources at the bottom of each page. I'll link them here in case they have any use to you.
Finnish
Welsh
Posted on 12/3/20 at 5:57 pm to NakaTrash
quote:
Which one has hotter chicks you could one day try to pick up?
Klingon. Then go to Comicon and pick up the cosplay chicks.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 6:25 pm to The Silverback
Suomi. It is not called Finnish in their language.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 6:32 pm to Koach K
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Suomi. It is not called Finnish in their language
Close, but no Cigar.
Suomi is the Finnish name for Finland.
Suomalainen is the Finnish name for the Finnish language.
Kind of like how German isn’t called German in German either. It’s Deutsche
Posted on 12/3/20 at 6:50 pm to The Silverback
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While native speakers for both are rare, what sounds more "cool" to learn?
Doesn't Welsh have really long place names?
weather guy nails 58 letter place name
Posted on 12/3/20 at 6:53 pm to fr33manator
I believe Finnish is difficult to learn
Posted on 12/3/20 at 6:53 pm to epbart
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