One of my quilting friends has had one of her pieces shown in a Finnish quilting magazine (who even knew there were such things?), and she wants to know what the commentary next to it says. I know this forum is full of people with a wide range of skills and talents and wondered if anyone can tell us what this means:
Kangas kasinvarjatty, [with umlauts over each A] tikkauksia ei ole merkitty etuka-teen [word hyphenated but at the end of a line] Antaa menna vaan.
Ta!
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Tell her it says....
This piece is truely outstanding in it's workmanship
It is...but is that what it says?
I got pretty much what Pig got: fabric blah blah not marked, pre teen blah blah let go.
Possibly not what my friend was hoping for
Finnish - arguably one of the toughest languages out there along with Hungarian.
The Scandinavians all speak each others languages except nobody really speaks Finnish. The Finns do speak Swedish for instance.
So Don's Finnish friend is your best bet !!
Swedish is the 2nd language of Finland - all officla documents are available in both languages. Sweden occupied Finland for quite a while....all Finnish schoolchildren learn Swedish for most of their school time, though they all seem to conveniently forget it soon after. (I work for a half Swedish half Finnish company, and the politics is entertaining)
Swedish / Norwegian / Danish are very similar languages - more like dialects of each other than wholly different. Finnish is totally off the wall...in five years I've learnt enough Swedish to manage daily basics and understand/write simple emails. Finnish - I've learnt 3 words including hello!