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mayumispa
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Post by mayumispa » Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:02 am

didnt meant to be rude to the fins, but some of the threads here are funny, i love dogs so Alpo is funny, veine sounds like italian for come, kerttu sounds like kermit the frog's relatuive,aino and the like brings smiles.

but sissu, is a beautiful fin name for and arttu as well...and hanna :D


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Post by karen » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:17 am

mayumispa wrote:didnt meant to be rude to the fins, but some of the threads here are funny, i love dogs so Alpo is funny, veine sounds like italian for come, kerttu sounds like kermit the frog's relatuive,aino and the like brings smiles.

but sissu, is a beautiful fin name for and arttu as well...and hanna :D
It's "Finn." Usually people name the whole fish and not just the fin. Finns live in Finland. You like a Finnish girl. Now finish your breakfast and go tell her.
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Post by phormion » Sat Sep 10, 2005 11:28 am

Did I understand correctly that KKO is the acronym for the Finnish Supreme Court of Justice? That is quite cool, in Romanian forums 'K' is usually used as a short form for 'ca', so it would read 'cacao' (cocoa), but it's used as a milder form for 'kkt' (cacat = sh*t) :). So, I guess it sounds kinda, well... sh*tty to me :).
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Post by Hank W. » Sat Sep 10, 2005 11:48 am

Well, you can go to the KKK-market to buy paper then :wink:
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Post by acwan » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:12 pm

KY may be the nickname of the student union here, but in the US, the nickname represents a well-known brand of lubricant (aka astroglide). :oops:
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Post by Hank W. » Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:19 pm

Well, if you go to KY you do need KY :lol:
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Post by jmbullet » Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:53 am

:lol: ... something that is a bit funny

in finnish : moi, moi means in french myself, myself.. or me, me... lol
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Post by karen » Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:15 am

jmbullet wrote::lol: ... something that is a bit funny

in finnish : moi, moi means in french myself, myself.. or me, me... lol
Yeah, but the two don't sound at all alike.
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Post by taniusha » Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:56 pm

Cant avoid to laugh still when i remember the day i read in a bottle of sider : JOKA PULLO SOI, that means something like Im an idiot (or something even worse) in Spanish.
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Post by RA » Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:56 am

Tadpole'sMommy wrote:
jmbullet wrote::lol: ... something that is a bit funny

in finnish : moi, moi means in french myself, myself.. or me, me... lol
Yeah, but the two don't sound at all alike.
Kenya's last president is called Moi and that's pronounced the same way as the Finnish Moi :D so it was very funny for first-time Kenyans in Finland to hear Finns exclaiming their president's name each time they saw each other. :lol:
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Post by mumboman » Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:57 pm

jm is from Canada and the way french canadians talk you never know. For example i was once visiting a friend in montreal he asked me what i wanted to eat I felt like some poutine, he took me to the red light district and told me I could choose which one.
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Post by baris » Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:24 am

We were with my Finnish friends in Antalya. One guy was selling boards (pano in Turkish) for 2 Turkish Liras. Well, it took me a while to understand why my friends were taking pictures of the paper "Pano - 2 TL" and laughing their ass off.
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
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again

Post by Papu » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:31 am

sorry for mentioning the "Pussi" thing again...

The other day, we were in the warehouse packing some stuff.
And then my (finnish) colleagues asks one of the girls out of the blue:

"Do you have a small pussi?"

He really didn't realize what he was saying - I guess he just wanted a small plastic-bag - but we laughed for ages...
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Post by fildi » Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:55 am

I saw on the map that there is a town named Kotka. In Bulgarian it means a cat :)
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Post by phormion » Sat Nov 12, 2005 12:02 pm

I just realized that this one I forgot: now, having explained "pulla" on the first page, you realize why seeing all those "kahvi ja pulla - 1 euro" billboards in Lapland made me and a friend laugh out loud :D. I was making fun of this with a Finnish co-worker - I was saying that it must be a case of Finnish bluntness, while others use "would you like to come at my place for coffee?", Finns state their intentions outright :D. Not to mention the bargain prices.

fildi, you're damn right about Kotka. Remembered that from my days of watching "Balgarska Televizia" when we only had 2 hours of TV programme each day.
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