Partly P: diacritical signs

[Bekah]

Omg, that is too funny!   I need to send this to my cousins in Pori,  
Finland.

Thanks,

Bekah


On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:06 AM, János Székely wrote:

> Laura, this is a paralinguistic joke. Finnish and Hungarian are
> related but about as close as Bengali to Gaelic. So they don't
> resemble each other at all (apart from "vowel harmony" and some
> grammatic features), and most people just can't grab the basics of
> comparative linguistics anyway. But still it is taught in schools. So
> this bunch of schoolkids supplied a "proof", taking this Nightwish
> song (in Finnish) and "understanding" it as if it were Hungarian, with
> nonsensical sentences like "Kell ránk vaj" ("We need butter on
> ourselves" - hope this is not RTF) or "Ó Jani, sok szöszi" (O Johnny,
> so many blondies). Etc.
> János
>
> 2009/2/13  <kelber at mindspring.com>:
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>
>>
>>>
>>> I mean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmtthZUpbuQ
>>>
>>> J
>>
>>
>> Janos, for those of us who are clueless over what this is about,  
>> could you explain what this is about?
>>
>> Laura
>>
>>
>