From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <10bu9qs$3jndk$3@dont-email.me>,   
   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.   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   If I'm not mistaken, Linus Torvalds native language is actually   
   Swedish (a moniorit language in Finland).  However, to add to the   
   list:  Svante Paabo (my apologies for the missing marks over the   
   As in his last name).  He led the team that sequenced Neanderthal   
   DNA and other work on sequencing DNA of vansihed hominids.   
   And--completely incidental--Dorothy knew him when he was a   
   post-doc at Berkeley and she was doing secretarial work for the   
   porfessor he was working under.   
      
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