Re: DevCo has a Fire Chief on staff

"David Smith" wrote:
I.P. Nichols kirjoitti:

My Finnish speaking friends from the Upper Peninsula region of Michigan
say that Finnish and Hungarian languages share some commonality. In that
part of

Yes, Finland is part of the Scandinavia, but Finnish language is a member
of the Finno-Ugric language family as is Hungary. The other languages in
Scandinavia (Swedish, Danish and Norwegian) belong to the North Germanic
languages (also called Scandinavian languages).

Tell me about it, I met and married my wife in Sweden while I was working
there, if only I had understood the language.;-)

FYI Finnish is one of the most difficult languages in world and you should
never try to learn it if you want to keep your sanity.

Are you saying all my insanely goofy Finnish speaking friends got that way
trying to learn to speak as little tots...


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