Does it have any purpose? It looks like an interesting language...but nobody really speaks it.
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Anonymous2007-11-29 0:36
Tolkien based one of his elven languages off of it. Maybe more, I can't remember.
Of course, that doesn't make it any more practical to learn. Unless you're planning to move to Scandinavia, it's probably not worth the effort.
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Anonymous2007-11-29 3:25
>>2
Not even if you're planning to move to Scandinavia. >>1
Finnish is 100% useless. But that shouldn't stop you from learning it if you really like the language.
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Anonymous2007-11-29 5:13
well... there are 5.3 milj Finish who speak it :D
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Anonymous2007-11-29 9:30
What's the diff between Finnish, Swedish and Norwayish or whatever?
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Anonymous2007-11-29 9:47
>>5
Finnish isn't even in the same language family as Swedish and Norwegian, so quite a lot.
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Anonymous2007-11-29 10:17
Norwayish.
LUL.
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Anonymous2007-12-02 9:31
Finland is merely East Sweden.
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Anonymous2007-12-02 13:54
Wrong, Finland is North-West Russia or atleast it will be soon if Putin wins.
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Anonymous2007-12-04 11:09
No en mää teistä tiedä mut mää ainakin haluan nussia neekeriä pistää banaania niiden perseeseen.
Interesting fact: umlaut is a German concept and has to do with changing pronunciation (umlaut means changed sound). In the nordic languages ä is a letter, not an umlaut of a.
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Anonymous2007-12-06 15:35
>>17
Finnish is in no way related to nordic languages.
>>26
what the fuck are you doing on /lang/ then moron
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Anonymous2007-12-17 6:30
>>31
PROTIP: The fact that every language besides English is useless doesn't make them any less interesting.
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Anonymous2007-12-17 14:15
Finnish is a good language if you don't mind studying the rest of your life and still not even nearly mastering it.
Anyway, Finnish sounds a bit like Japanese (pretty much in fact) and well is the best way to encrypt text. And yeah, Tolkien taught himself it.
You'd like it if you learned. The only thing is that it's almost as hard as Chinese. Just in a different way.
Joo vitut osaan ees amerikan kieltä. Selitä siinä sitten suomesta. Tapan itteni.
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Anonymous2007-12-18 5:52
>>32
not useless.
i make a living from speaking Chinese and english
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Anonymous2007-12-18 9:17
>>34
And I'm sure somewhere in the world there's someone that makes a living by eating nose boogers. Just because it's useful to one person, it doesn't make a difference in the big scheme of things.
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Anonymous2007-12-19 5:25
>>35
>Just because it's useful to one person
>Just because it's useful
>useful
point made
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Anonymous2007-12-19 6:55
>>36
>Just because it's useful to one person
>useful to one person
>one person
point made
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Anonymous2007-12-19 15:32
Only languages that have any international use are English, Español, Français, Japanese, and Chinese.
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Anonymous2007-12-19 16:46
>>38 Chinese
No.
It's a myth spreaded by misguided people just because China is a rising economy. Actually, Chinese businessmen prefer to conduct international business using English.
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Anonymous2007-12-19 17:55
>>39
Lies. I have yet to meet a single Chinese person who speaks English you can make sense of.