Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You are almost correct, Nathan. Finnish and Estonian are indeed closely related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_language Finnish is very different from any Indo-European language because it is a agglutinative language which more or less means that it has no prepositions. (I'm sure Daniel Ridings has a more precise explanation :) My native language is German and I speak fluently Finnish. Listening to Estonian is for me like listening to Dutch: I think I should understand it but I do not. My Finnish wife claims that she understand up to 30% but what she really meant is that she understands just enough to guess through context what the 30% could mean (I hope she doesn't read this;-). Most people in Estonia speak quite good Finnish because they watch Finnish TV particularly during the time when they were part of the Soviet Empire but I do not know any Finn that speaks Estonian (I'm sure there are but I don't know any) To bring it back to Leica: 6 weeks ago we made a one day trip to Tallinn and climbed the tower of the Oleviste church. These pictures are for our family and friends back in the USA but I think the LUG is family enough. I am hesitant to show them because we have so many excellent photographers here on the LUG .... and those pictures are not made with our Leicas because our Nikon LS-2000 broke and I just got an e-mail from Nikon Support saying : "Total cost with parts is about 350-400 euros inc.tax. +sending cost". I am not spending $500 to repair the scanner. http://www.sirjester.com/Finland/Tallinn/slides/A1.html Regards J?rg -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jorg.willems=pp.inet.fi@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jorg.willems=pp.inet.fi@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:25 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Non-Indo-European European languages I believe you are correct, and that Estonian is also in that category--I know that the Finns and Estonians can more or less understand each other, so their languages must be related. Nathan