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I think I've got better things to do.

Anyhow, I have never claimed that Finland is a Scandinavian country (and even less that Finnish is a such language).

Finland is not a Scandinavian country, but I have long since stopped caring about that, because _everyone_ makes the mistake.

Alware,

The translation is a good one; it is at the same time rhythmically good and close the meaning of the original.


You're really going to try and translate it? How long have you been...

Talking about Finnish grammar, I came across this program which can show about 1000 inflexions for every Finnish verb: http://www.wakkanet.fi/%7Epahio/esitteet.html

The program's also in English.

Yes, it is. I, however, thought that we were talking only about this: http://dojo.fi/~rancid/loituma__.swf


Translating that whole text is quite a process, it being a dialect -- do you / does...

Yes, very cool.


I don't really care about hockey, sorry.

A verb can become nominal, meaning it is considered to be a noun. This is called infinitive in Finnish.

an example of the 4th infinitive:

laulaa (to sing) -> laulaminen (singing, generally: "I...

The nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals, infinitives, and participles do have 15 cases, yes. :)

For example, let's take the word "auto" (a car):
(I'll use the Finnish names for the cases,...

Halusin. Min