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2020-05-13 , 15:07
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The main point is that letters are always pronounced the same way (hmmm. almost always). Finnish O is always o, not like in English O (cow, gold for example, a and o, like we Finns say) :-)
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Originally Posted by Heik View Post
The main point is that letters are always pronounced the same way (hmmm. almost always). Finnish O is always o, not like in English O (cow, gold for example, a and o, like we Finns say) :-)
Yes but they are sorted and added one after the other in a manner like (all non-finnish try to pronounce ):
Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliups eerioppilas
or maybe:
lyijytäytekynä

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#73
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Originally Posted by Koiruus View Post
Finnish language is different because most word are pronounced the same way they are written
Now, that sounds weird to any non-native Finnish speaker
Not really. Most (all?) Slavic languages are like that too. Write as you speak.
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Not really. Most (all?) Slavic languages are like that too. Write as you speak.
And you (the one calling a trout with 4 consonants in a row, pstruh) are right.
But did you ever ask any non-slovak guy to pronounce that right?

I did not want to start a language war. And I love to hear Finnish. Just that I have no idea how to speak out any of those words.

Latin and (old) Greek are the same or even the purest ones. And as well German (Hannoveraner) is pretty close to speak-as-you-write.
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(the one calling a trout with 4 consonants in a row, pstruh)
I am impressed!

It gets even better. The word for "finger" is only consonants. Not only that, but 4 consecutive consonants in the alphabet: "prst" (there is no Q in the Slovak alphabet)
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OK ok, Swedish is also official language in Finland. So many names of streets come from Swedish family names.

I could go and take an official photo with my F(x)tec Pro of this "uplifting" sign to participate this competition :-)
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It gets even better. The word for "finger" is only consonants. Not only that, but 4 consecutive consonants in the alphabet: "psrt"
Oh! My slovak is very rudimentary (counting and understanding menu ). I did not know that.
But looking up I found that
Strč prst skrz krk
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In my signature the last line is written how a finn would write english the finnish pronunciation way:

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Strč prst skrz krk
Yup, that's a whole sentence made up entirely of consonants

(R and L are special, so-called "syllable-forming" consonants in Slovak. Another example is "vlk" = "a wolf".)

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In my signature the last line is written how a finn would write english the finnish pronunciation way
I like how the Cyrillic using languages transliterate English words.
Phonetically. Often to the nearest approximation, if the direct equivalent does not exist.

(Probably Chinese and other non-Latin languages too, but I cannot read those.)

Mind you, English does the same with Russian words. "Soyuz" and "perestroika" are good approximations, but "Gorbachev", and "Kazakhstan" are only so-so.
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R and L are special, so-called "syllable-forming" consonants in Slovak. Another example is "vlk" = "a wolf".
Czech is even better. The longest Czech word I can think of that is made entirely of consonants is "scvrnkls". It means, "you shrank".
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