> the Finnish language does not have an equivalent for the word "please" so it's sometimes really hard to be courteous and polite for a finn. Gee. Even though

> the Finnish language does not have an equivalent for the word "please" so it's sometimes really hard to be courteous and polite for a finn. Gee. Even though there is not a separate "politeness word" in Finnish (or in many other languages), this does not mean that Finnish does not have ways to express several levels of politeness. It's only hard to be polite for a Finn who does not know English very well. And it's equally hard for an English-speaking person to be polite in Finnish, if that person doesn't know Finnish very well.