Re: Erittäin lupaava ...

"Andrew Fiddian-Green" <nn@dd> wrote:

Don't worry. It seems to be encrypted anyway.

ROFL -- not bad from a Swede to a Finn...

The encryption comment had me chuckling too :)

Swedish, Danish, Norwegian are related and generaly understandable
across the borders. Icelandic is related to Norwegian/Danish - but
broke away several hundred years ago - so not that easily
understandable without training.

Finnish is a completely different language group. The vocabulary and
grammar differences between Swedish and Finnish are enormous. It's
almost like comparing English and Zwahili :)
.

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