User talk:Alexlykke

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[edit] Your questions on my talk

Yes I am danish, I study at the University of Turku/Åbo in Finland. No offence, but I don't know why it should be so weird to speak finnish, after all Finland is closer to Denmark than England, and many people speak english anyway. Of course I do get a lot of responses about finnish being difficult. As it is, finnish is not at all difficult to learn unless you make it difficult for yourself, it's just a different type of language. It's quite straightforward in terms of phonology (much much easier to learn than danish in that respect) and the syntax is quite stringent and well ordered, the agglutination is also rather pure, so there's not so much memorization as in flexing languages like French, Latin etc.--AkselGerner (talk) 20:58, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

The relation isn't 100% 1:1, they write "ng" for /ŋŋ/ and "nk" for /ŋk/, but that's the biggest deviation. I have gotten my own perspectives on the weirdness of danish/denmark/danes in living abroad, it's funny how a mind can accept as commonplace the most deviant of practices, just because they are the norm at home. For example, every time I fly to Denmark I am disgusted to notice the stink of cigarette smoke throughout Kastrup Airport, but I guess that may have changed with the new laws, haven't flown to there for a while. As for why, the reason is the usual one: boy meets girl, boy learns finnish, boy moves to Finland.--AkselGerner (talk) 21:23, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unnoticed Feature of the English Language

This is that words derived from names of countries take a capital letter. Thus ""You might be Danish" "You might speak Finnish". One should check one's en.WP edits.--SilasW (talk) 14:36, 3 June 2008 (UTC)