Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site kvvax4.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!mcvax!kvvax4!esa From: esa@kvvax4.UUCP (Esa K Viitala) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Hor.Hacking Finnish/Estonian/Hungarian/Turkish Message-ID: <157@kvvax4.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 05:03:21 EST Article-I.D.: kvvax4.157 Posted: Mon Nov 4 05:03:21 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 05:48:21 EST References: <522@tjalk.UUCP> <> Reply-To: esa@kvvax4.UUCP (Esa K Viitala) Organization: Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, Defence Division, Norway Lines: 38 In article <> zwicky@osu-eddie.UUCP (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) writes: >In general, Finnish is not all that irregular; it's just that the regularity >is somewhat more complex than English speakers expect. The only irregular Great. That's my impression, too. However, it is long time ago I went through my text books (as a friend from ujocs pointed out in a reply to my article a couple of months ago). I have been waiting for some reactions to this discussion from Finland (ujocs & taycs & al). I hope they subscribe to this group, let us hear from you. It would be interesting to compare, say, hyphenating programs (one for English and the other for Finnish). This would give some insight in the regularity/irregularity of the Finnish language. Unfortunately I do not have any such programs for Finnish. Could someone in Finland, please mail me one. I'd prefer one written in such a language that I can get it compiled (C, Pascal, Fortran, Lisp, sorry, no Algol compilers here ...). Of course any other language will do, if you don't have it written in any of the afore laguages. >verb I have come across in Finnish is _olen_, to be, which is irregular The stem of verb 'to be' really is 'olla' I am mina" olen you are sina" olet (s)he is ha"n on we are me olemme you are te olette they are he ovat > >I like it precisely because it is so regular. Spelling is almost completly >phonetic. Only "almost"?? -- ---ekv, {seismo,okstate,garfield,decvax,philabs}!mcvax!kvvax4!esa