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

mcv wrote:
Kari Tikkanen <ktikkane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

(I meant consonant-happy ofcourse, but I hope everybody understood that.)

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" ?)

Ofcourse Czech (and presumably Welsh, although I don't know as much about
it) cheat by using consoants as vowels. In Czech, for example, the 'r'
behaves like a vowel. Brno is pronounced as if it has two syllables
(which it probably really does).

But my native language, Dutch, also has a few funny words with an
overdose of vowels or consonants. Autumn, for example, is "herfst".
A cow's udder would be "koeieuier" (although I think the most recent
spelling mess-up may have changed it to "koeie-uier", which would be
quite a bit more readable).


I think there is a common malady suffered by both the Dutch and the Finns, ie. the seemingly everlasting problem of trying to get our names correctly understood by those afflicted by other mother tongues. :)


mcv.



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Seppo P.
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