Hello andBy55 said:
Nice to see Finland represented here so widely. What is comes to languages I can also tell that my English is so messed up because my studies are basicly 50/50 in Finnish and english. So the terminology is all over the place.Janus said:
A few years ago, we had Finlandia by Sibelius at The Last Night of the Proms:By55 said:
PeroK said:
LOL, Here in Silicon Valley we definitely know about Finland. I've worked with some excellent Finnish engineers. I'd guess they all worked for Nokia at some time.By55 said:
Not at all surprising. There are many Americans that have poor education about the rest of the world; or maybe just a poor education.By55 said:
The sad part is that is that both my parents spoke Finnish, but didn't pass it on to us kids. If they had, I likely would be fluent in both.( though, as my Mom learned when she went back to visit relatives in the '70's, there had been some slight changes in usage from when Her parents left. For example, a word she had learned to mean "smell" in general, now was used for "stink". )By55 said:
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