I thought Swedish was difficult

Posted by Guano & Associates | Posted in | Posted on 5:55 PM


Last week, I went to Kolari, Finland for a meeting with local stakeholders to discuss our mining permitting process. As I sat and listened to the Finnish discussion, all I could think of was Lakota or Paiute. I kept expecting to hear about the mine affecting the herds of "tatonka".

The other thing I noticed was the length of the words and number of vowels. Here are a couple of examples:

liiketoimintasuunnitelmat = "business plan"

insinööisuunitelmat = "engineering plan"

I've heard stories of Mormon missionaries complaining about being sent to Sweden so the bosses change they're destination and training to Finland for a day. After that, they beg to go back to the easy Swedish lessons.

Comments Posted (2)

  1. willblatt has writed...

    paralelepípedo, that was always the hardest word I could remember. Still no where as hard.

    Posted on: August 21, 2008 at 4:39 AM
  2. Guano & Associates has writed...

    Mine was always "otorhinolaryngologista"

    Posted on: August 26, 2008 at 12:50 PM

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