Thanks for those comments, Piers. I thought Finnish was a Turkic language, but
now I remember that Hungaric came into my reading at some stage nearly 20 years
ago.
it looks like an interesting place; and of course during the Cold War it was a
strange sort of frontier country, neither in the Warsaw Pact nor completely out
of it, I understood.
Cheers
Chris
> On 1 Nov 2019, at 10:33, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks for an interesting view on an interesting place, Nathan. I haven't
> been to Helsinki "proper" for 30 years, and on that visit time was extremely
> short (Since then, only in transit to Moscow or Tallinn, though the airport
> is a pleasure to use). You show a city which is European, but "different",
> encapsulating Finland very well. The name Stockmann is well-known to me, as
> they also had branches in Moscow from 1989 until very recently.
>
> Chris, I can say "Thank you" and "Auditor" in Finnish, no more, which might
> give you a clue as to the business on that visit 30 years ago! Finnish is a
> Finno-Ugric language, very close to Estonian (the Finns liken that to
> Shakespearean English) and related to Hungarian as well as Sami. Not only has
> Finnish nothing in common with the Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian,
> Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic) the Finno-Ugric group has nothing in common with
> the other European languages which are Indo-European.
>
> Piers
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