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From: et... Eric Chevalier
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 00:00

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In <331b5667...@news.interlog.com>,
b...@nospam.deus.com (William de Haan) writes:

>Finnish is an extremely brutal language for an English speaking person
>to try and learn, believe me. In the 1960s, I lived in Port Arthur (now
>Thunder Bay) in Canada, a city that has the largest Finnish expatriate
>population in the world. Trying to learn that language, I damn near
>choked to death a couple of times. Swedish and Danish aren't quite so
>bad, but Icelandic and Finnish... urgh. Something about having 18 consecutive
>vowels in a row always threw me for a loop :-)

Several years ago I worked at a shop where one of my co-workers was from
Finland.  We had several talks about the language, and she claimed that 
the only European language that was closely related to Finnish was 
Hungarian!  To this day I've wondered what historical quirks caused that
to be true.

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From: et...@deltanet.com (Eric Chevalier)
Subject: Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!)
Date: 1997/03/02
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