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woah! what up TOMI!
Posted by scottsullivan in
24 Feb 2010 — 3:06am
24 Feb 2010 — 3:06am
I wake up this morning to find Tomi looking at me from my inbox! CONGRATULATIONS!
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24 Feb 2010 — 3:12am
This year has started out great for Finnish type designers.
24 Feb 2010 — 6:48am
http://www.typophile.com/node/67741
'grats, by the way! :-)
24 Feb 2010 — 1:13pm
Woke you up, did I ? Heh.
24 Feb 2010 — 3:09pm
This year has started out great for Finnish type designers.
Every year starts out great for Finnish type designers: they have so many vowels!
24 Feb 2010 — 3:52pm
Not just wowels, or consonants, but both of them doubled, in one word. For example: aakkoset (in English: the alphabet). Or how about this single word: Ratsastajattarinkikinko? (in English: Even also with the hand of female horse back riders?)? Finnish grammar is just the best.
24 Feb 2010 — 4:58pm
Hmm. I'm not convinced that treating most prepositions as noun cases is the ‘best’ grammatical idea anyone ever had.
24 Feb 2010 — 5:11pm
Sorry, John-
I did not mean that. I just prefer my Finnish language with the complex grammar to English with a lot of words and simple grammar.
24 Feb 2010 — 5:17pm
I was joking, Tomi. Anyway, Tsev has Finnish beaten in the noun case department: 64 cases!
But I finally realised why the radio news in Latin is so popular in Finland: the Finns are among the few people who would consider Latin declension rules simple. :)
25 Feb 2010 — 3:15am
Well, they are simple: you decline only in singular and plural, there is no dual :-)
25 Feb 2010 — 7:21pm
Voin ehkä antaa periksi joissakin kohdissa, mutta periaatteessa minä olen oikeassa.
Figure that out (grammatically correct).
Mostly not Latin radio, but Italian; easy to pronounce. Hmm.
25 Feb 2010 — 7:28pm
Any fan club yet that we all can join?
25 Feb 2010 — 8:02pm
I lived in Finland a while (taught in Muurla and Salo). My favorite bit of Finnish:
"Kokoa Kokoon Koko Kokko. Koko Kokkoko? Koko Kokko."
That really is a cool language.
26 Feb 2010 — 12:43am
You are right, I should have said that Latin rules could be even more complicated instead that they are simple :-)
btw, congratulations!
26 Feb 2010 — 12:17pm
@Tomi
Has anyone told you you look like James Hetfield of Metallica?
27 Feb 2010 — 10:09am
@Tomi
Has anyone told you you look like a huge badass in general?? haha
27 Feb 2010 — 3:56pm
Dan, now I have a full beard, so that's moot (or 'moo' as Joe from Friends said) point.
Scott, that I've heard not nearly enough many times.
"Herra Koko, kokoo kokoon koko kokko. Koko kokkoko? Koko kokko."
"Mister Koko, build together the whole bond fire. The whole bond fire? The whole bond fire."
28 Feb 2010 — 1:40am
I just prefer my Finnish language with the complex grammar to English with a lot of words and simple grammar.
This is a military rank in the air force: "lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkovaraupseerioppilas". If compound words weren't allowed, this would rank as the longest: "epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydelläänsäkäänköhän".
It's a lovely language.