[SunkenCiv]

The weekly digest listing is up top. Thanks for the link, C!

[frank ballenger]

A junior high school joke to be read aloud.

On the way to the rest room you’re Russian.

There, European.

And finally Finnish.

[Cronos]

The level of incomprehensibility between Finnish, Estonian, and Magyar is quite interesting, suggesting a divergence dating back probably millennia

[A_perfect_lady]

I hope next they figure out where Basque comes from.

[MD Expat in PA]

There are those who lump Finland into Scandinavia based solely on geography. But culturally and linguistically Finns are not Scandinavians.

FWIW, my dad's best friend while serving in the US army in the SPT was a Finnish immigrant, my dad a Norwegian immigrant.

Both came to America as young children, but both could speak some of their native tongues, but neither could understand each other's. My dad could understand some German and of course Danish though as there were enough similarities.