Crap, it happened again.

[camwyn]

Uh, kelathefinn? I need to petition for another translation. My country on the game NationStates is, er, Tuonela, 'cos I was on a major Kalevala kick at the time I created it and I felt that would sound better than naming my country Pohjola (that or there was already a Pohjola). This has led to a tiny spot of trouble... a telegram from another country that I cannot read. It runs:

Perkele ku toi tuonela oli nimenä jo viety... unohda

and that's it. Er. What does it say? (I replied with the properly spelt 'I am very sorry but I am only an American' sentence.)

Oh, and your postcard arrived. Thank you so much! I am going to have to send you some now, really...

Comments

[lasa.livejournal.com]

So Unohda means 'forget it?' What a great word for that.

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

Yep. Well, more literally, just "forget"; it's the imperative form of "unohtaa", which means "to forget".

Re: spamming camwy`ns lj yet again

[camwyn]

*chuckles* I always kind of wanted to learn Finnish, but it was based more on the language looking cool and being utterly incomprehensible to virtually everyone I knew. Glad to make things interesting for the readers, though.

Re: spamming camwy`ns lj yet again

[sookail.livejournal.com]

xD Well, I have practical reasons as well, Estonian archaeology seems to co-work drag after with Finnish archaeo a lot. But yes, that`d be simply cool, too.

And sorry about deleting, for some reason I seem to be unable to type today :P

Re: spamming camwy`ns lj yet again

[camwyn]

No worries. It happens.

[sookail.livejournal.com]

Mh! Like "unustama" in Estonian.

****, I so really have to go to Finnish classes next year, this is fascinating!