Re: Three conversions from belief here (due to science)

"On 2 Jun 2006 06:22:40 -0700, in article
<1149254560.111603.207840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kari Tikkanen
stated..."


mcv wrote:
SeppoP <seppo_pietikainen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
xxx@xxxxxxx wrote:
On 1-Jun-2006, "Windy" <pikaia@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
r norman wrote:
Kari Tikkanen wrote:
PS.(For Finnish speakers only: Miracle healing report "Herra tekee
ihmeit? ilman m??r???":
Kari, I don't mean to be too personal but what do you Finns have
against consonants?
Ett?k? keskustelisimme konsonanteitta? Ei kai sent??n.

Did an early Finnish explorer visit Hawaii and
become enamored of that culture? Or, perhaps, is it your compulsion
to make sure your culture differs from Germanic as much as possible?

I think the ratio of consonants to vowels in Finnish isn't really all
that weird when compared to most Indoeuropean languages. Take a look at
Welsh for an example of a language that really is too vowel-happy.

Crwth is walesian music instrument. I cannot name even one finnish name
of thing where there would be only consonants.
Also in Czech language there are names without vowels.
(I think, there is ice hockey player called "Hrbk" ?)
[...snip...]

The letters "w" (in Welsh) and "r" (in Czech, as well as
in Croatian) can spell a vowel sound, and some languages have
vowels spelled with an "l", "m", or "n". There is a common
Chinese family name spelled "Ng", which represents a vowel
sound (but, by the way, it is not Mandarin Chinese).

Dare I mention the English word "nth"? And I can't resist:
"tsk" - which *does* lack a vowel sound.


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