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I was thinking of "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" or something similar. It's been a while since I read it, so... But, it's similar to "Rouges" if I'm not mistaken.

Hm, the plot is nearly identical to a short story by Clark Ashton Smith - if I'm mistaken... Or am I?

Swedish: ooologiskt - When something about eggs is not scientific, all the first vowels are pronounced individually. "d e d d e" ("det er det det er" in bokm?l) means "that's what it is" or "it is what it is" (depending on intonation) Same as Swedish then, but only in writing ;) Fully pronounced the...

Hans-Werner, fair enough, I'll accept your explaination

But, I would bet that much money on that the Russians were more evil than the Swedes, we weren't very nice to the finns I'm afraid...

Drydic_guy: Thanks very much, I was just wondering...

Jar Jar Binks wrote: Replace "Finnish person" with "Finnish speaker" and we're all happy. Well, perhaps "speaker of Finnish" is even better? A "Finnish speaker" would perhaps say "God kv?ll!" instead of "Hyv?? iltaa!" depending on he/she is from Mariehamn or from Karelia... Enough of that Hans-Wern...

The Swedish word for prison (F?ngelse) is pretty hard for a finnish person to pronounce. So it is likely that the word is taken from tower: "torn" or perhaps the tower: "tornet".


I saw that the Swedish word for eagle, "?rn" is the same as in Verdurian.