RE: First day of the end of the sun by preparedwombat

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thoughts · @preparedwombat · Sep 1 '19

My dad’s first language was Norwegian. He was quite fluent in English but American place names that came from Native American languages often threw him off. My wife more than once said that he had a very pronounced accent, but I couldn’t hear it at all *except* when we spoke on the phone (digital versus analog clipped out something?).

He’d picked up a smattering of other languages when he was still in Europe but thought that Finnish was difficult because of verb tenses.

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@celestal · Sep 1 '19

>He’d picked up a smattering of other languages when he was still in Europe but thought that Finnish was difficult because of verb tenses.

I can imagine, knowing other European languages won't help at all with Finnish because it's in a completely different language tree: Finno-Ugric.

👍 firealien

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@tarazkp · Sep 1 '19

When I was young and we had a landline, those who called and knew I had a mix  would think my mother must have been the Indian one if they spoke to my dad. People only ever thought he had an accent once they saw him. 

Finnish is hard to learn... not that I have tried too hard  :D

btw, is the voting percentage you often use because it is the Answer to Everything?

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@preparedwombat · Sep 2 '19

>btw, is the voting percentage you often use because it is the Answer to Everything?

Indeed.

“Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots.”
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@tarazkp · Sep 2 '19

>or as our spouses would have it: Idiots.”

This is one of the most profound components of life that most never spend time to think upon. The people we care about the most, the ones who know who we are and what we do - discount our value as professionals.  

The reason is, they know all the other stupid things we do in private. =)

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