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• jpatokal 13y ago
  Yup, accents can be pretty critical. In Finnish, näin means "I saw", but nain means "I had sex with". This put a bit of a twist on a friend trying to tell me "I saw the rapist in the park!" when the umlaut dropped off...
  • pavlov 13y ago
    To make things even more complicated, nain means either "I had sex with N" or "I married N" depending on the case of the object noun. I've always thought it awfully pragmatic that the Finnish word for "getting married" is literally "to go and fuck together".
    • jpatokal 13y ago
      You can differentiate the cases by the conjugation of the object though. "nain Annan" (genetive, "all of") is marrying Anna, while "nain Annaa" (partitive, "part of") is fucking Anna. But yes, learners of Finnish should definitely be careful with that verb ;)
• gohrt 13y ago
  That's a sad story, and the alphabet caused some confusion, but the cell phone didn't kill anyone. Ermine's sociopathic father and Turkey's misogynistic culture set the stage for a man to man to lead is futher to gang-murder someone over an oblique and ungramattical insult to sexual purity.