From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/5/25 1:27 PM, Gary McGath wrote:   
   > On 10/5/25 11:00 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   >> Unlike films made in Romance or even Germanic languages, this is   
   >> not a film most English-speaking viewers can turn away from and   
   >> hope to follow from the spoken dialogue. Finnish is a Uralic   
   >> language, not even on the Indo-European language tree, and related   
   >> to only Estonian and Hungarian. And Finnish works at not adopting   
   >> Indo-European cognates, so where a lot of non-Indo-European   
   >> languages use a word resembling "telephone" for "telephone",   
   >> Finnish uses "puhelin". (Icelandic uses "simi".) The bottom line:   
   >> unless you understand Finnish, it will all be, well, Finnish to   
   >> you.   
   >   
   > I know two words of Finnish: Kalevala and Linux.   
      
   And sauna.   
      
   --   
   Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn   
   Don't ever save anything for a special occasion.   
   Every day you're alive is a special occasion. -Ann Wells   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)