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A weird random comment someone wrote in my ASCII-based logographs/ideograms thread:

Zoris wrote:ASCII stupid question, get s stupid ANSI...

ukko (Finnish) - old man. Meaningless trivia I suppose, but isn't this also the name of an ancient Finnish sky god? I believe he's the god of thunder (thus ukkonen means thunder). old bitchy woman. There's always "hag". Oh yeah, I forgot! Interestingly, Swedish has two words for this - kärring and ...

Some Finnish words I miss: hän - he or she. It's really annoying having to write he/she or s/he when speaking about a hypothetical person. vinkua - a verb similar to cry, as in to make a sound. You can use this word for both pets, for example the sound a cat makes that is different from meowing, as ...

Lhueslue: --- genetic kin --- Parent laey /læj/ Father raely /rælj/ Mother caely /ɕælj/ Brother rild /rild/ Sister cild /ɕild/ Older Brother aeraeld /æræld/ Older Sister aecaeld /æɕæld/ Younger Brother arald /arald/ Younger Sister acald /aɕald/ Son rach /ratʃ/ Daughter cach /ɕatʃ/ --- fictive kin -...

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 th...

And that language in my 1st posting would be Georgian. Oops. Finnish has: Kokoo kokoon koko kokko! Koko kokkoko? Koko kokko. Kokko is a word for a pile of wood that is burnt during the midsummer "juhannus" celebrations. I'll use woodpile for it: Gather together the whole woodpile! The whole woodpil...