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Well, that was a Finnish inside joke anyway.
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Finns have jokes?
Hey Aivo, could you send me Finnish euro coins?
And that was an OT inside joke
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-I'm pretty sure the first was the one to be beheaded.They chopped off the second one's head. That's why kings in England don't take that name when they accede to the throne."The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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-Yeah, I should get past the stage where I can only pretend to speak GermanOOOOH, me too, I am quite eager to learn German.
-Er, we spell it Cluj. Or occasionally Cluj-Napoca after the Roman settlement.Klausenburg (Kluji)"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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Originally posted by Adalbertus
Nanzig
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It took me minutes to figure that one, but it made me when I got it at once
And everyone is welcome to be in my German course
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Eh?"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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I just wanted to know what the smileys were all about.
"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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Romania was only partly on the map I looked to, so I had to feign I would remember the name-Er, we spell it Cluj.
The first two look for the lost k in the same row. .
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Ecthelion, it is easier to figure out when you know that the -ich or -ig termination in the names of western German towns has a pre-roman (possibly celtic) origin, and was -iacum in latin. In French-speaking regions, this was changed into -y (for some reasons, Liège/... doesn't follow this rule). Now I wonder if the Linnich (between Aachen and Düsseldorf) and Ligny (not far from here) originally had the same name.
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Turska = cod in Finnish.
Anyway:
Norway = Norja
Denmark = Tanska
Netherlands = Alankomaat
Belgium = Belgia
Spain = Espanja
Italy = Italia
Poland = Puola
Ireland = Irlanti
Great Britain = Iso-Britannia
Turkey = Turkki
Croatia = Kroatia
United States of America = Amerikan Yhdysvallat (Although "Amerikka" is more usually used, not to forget "Jenkkilä" in daily conversation)
Greece = Kreikka"Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the worldComment
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I presume Nanzig is Danzig is Gdansk...
I don't think English messes with too many place names, but there are a few...Lisbon (Lisboa), Moscow (Moskva), Bangkok (Krung Thep), Cairo (Qahira), Athens (Athinai), Rome (Roma), Warsaw (Warszawa). The Germans seem to mess about with Polish place names like no ones business, Wroclaw (Breslau), Gdansk (Danzig), Szczecin (Stettin) for example...bizarre...Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Well, they did own most of those places before WWII."The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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Originally posted by Ecthelion
Finns have jokes?
Hey Aivo, could you send me Finnish euro coins?
And that was an OT inside joke
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I was thinking Nanzig = Nancy."The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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