Tétlen, szemlélõdõ rendõrök a "Paul Merton" tüntetésen

Ja Sheena Easton, va türahiinlane, mis temal "selle kõigega" pistmist on?
Juhhõi.

Jah, "Paul Merton" on põhjus, mispärast ma su postitust päris kämäräjüräks ep täi pidada ;)

Puhutko suomea, Tiit? Toivoisin osaavani viroa, mutta en ole jaksanut opetella...

at first i thought hungarian

def not a romance language

At first I thought the first sentence is in Turkish, but you're right, it's probably Hungarian. Tiit, however, was speaking in Estonian and me in Finnish. All three are part of the same language family (the Fenno-Ugrian), but no other language in Europe is, except for some small minority languages in Russia.

The initial post - doesn't look quite Hungarioan to me, never heard of there being the "õ"-letter in that language! Otherwise, it really is positively Hungarian looking.
Did those "õ" symbols appear there due to some interwebian glitch, perhaps??

The Basque language is an inflected language whose origin is still somewhat puzzling. The fact that it is not an Indoeuropean language, and shows no ressemblance to languages in neighbouring countries, has led to the formulation of a variety of hypotheses to explain its existence. Owing to some similarities with the Georgian language, some linguists think it could be related to languages from the Caucasus. Others relate the language to non-Arabic languages from the north of Africa. One of the most likely hypotheses argues that the Basque language developed "in situ", in the land of the primitive Basques. That theory is supported by the discovery of some Basque-type skulls in Neolithic sites, which ruled out the thesis of immigration from other areas. Many think it is a very old language because there are words, such as that for axe ("aizkora" or "haizkora") for example, that have the same root as the word rock ("aitz"> or "haitz")

xpost

someone: 'somewhere'?='debreczen'

;)

That's okay, all I can say in Eestish is "Kuidast käsi käyb?" and "Mis kel on?" (are those even rightly spelled?). I've always wondered, do Finnish words sound as silly to Estonians as some Estonian word sound to Finns?

Phonetically: Oh-nn-eh-ah vow-v-ah-ll-eh. The first "o" is pronounced like the "o" in the word "dog". The "ea" should be read almost like a one sound. "Vau" is spelled like the English word "vow". The "ll" is just two l's, like in the English word "kill".

Heh, that's likely -- but y'kno, I'm not one who knows too many Finnish words to begin with...

What's (also) been proved by everyday life, though, is that a similar kind of finding-weird-words-and-'warped-meanings'-in-the-language-of-your-closest-neighbours occurs betwixt Estonians/Latvians. ...Erm, I kno many a friend who's taken great delight in walking in Riga in that one street the name of which, literally, means 'Arse' in Estonian :)

Pronounced: Oh-nn-eh-ah vow-v-un cun-ssah.

The first sentence means "best of luck to the baby", but this one means "best of luck with the baby".

And what would that name be? Also, does the word "kyrpä" mean anything in Estonian, because someone once told me it does.

not that i kno' of.
then again, f'coursssss, i kno li'l of most things in this flat(ish) world of "ours", but...

wotevah.

And what would that name be?

That'd be "Perse".
(Well, I'm not totally dead-certain -- not having visited Riga m'self in TEN years, at least -- whether 'they' might've --- or mightn't --- changed the name, but that's the way it used to be)

Funny how those things happen, Tiit.

Haha, "perse" is "arse" in Finnish as well, and when I was in Riga back in 2000, I remember seeing it on some roadsign as well. Don't know what it means in Latvian, though.