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Helsinki	I have been told off! Posted: Tue March 4, 2008 01:41 PM UTC It seems my written english has caused some distress to at least one VTer. Apologies if it may sound as if I am stating Finns are Scandinavians, you are not you are from the Nordic region and are a people with a Finno-Ugaric language. ( However I think I did say you were not Scandinavians.) In respect of your language skills, again apologies if my written style suggests you only speak Finnish, Swedish and then English as a third language. Many of my friends speak other european languages and I have never met a country with so many people who speak other languages so fluently. As a business and comercial tool English will very probably match Spanish and German as your third language I am sure - follwoed closely I am sure by Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and so on. Oh dear people of Finland, please forgive me! Report Advertising or Inappropriate Posting	gordonilla	4 replies [Reply]

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I have been told off!
Posted: Tue March 4, 2008 01:41 PM UTC

It seems my written english has caused some distress to at least one VTer. Apologies if it may sound as if I am stating Finns are Scandinavians, you are not you are from the Nordic region and are a people with a Finno-Ugaric language. ( However I think I did say you were not Scandinavians.)

In respect of your language skills, again apologies if my written style suggests you only speak Finnish, Swedish and then English as a third language. Many of my friends speak other european languages and I have never met a country with so many people who speak other languages so fluently. As a business and comercial tool English will very probably match Spanish and German as your third language I am sure - follwoed closely I am sure by Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and so on.

Oh dear people of Finland, please forgive me!

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Re: I have been told off!
Posted: Tue March 4, 2008 04:24 PM UTC

Just a little addition to the language. "Ugric" part is still disputed tough. We just don't know. It's an agglutinative language for sure. Eons ago the agglutinative languages were THE NORM, but now they became rather a curiosity.

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