23 May 2006

Frinnish

It's probably a bad sign that the first thing I thought when seeing this badge:





was "Kill Denmark" (Tue the imperative from the French Tuer, to kill and Tanskaa the Finnish partitive for Denmark). Actually it means exactly the opposite, "Support Denmark," Tue coming from the Finnish verb tukea. If I'm already meshing the languages there's no hope for me when I continue my French studies in the fall, especially since I'm adding Swedish to the mix. This is why we should start language study earlier in the US...

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