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| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5919 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 33 of 39 24 December 2008 at 6:53am | IP Logged | ||
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I guessed so.
It's the incipit of Täällä Pohjantähden alla (Under the North Star, 1959-63) by Väinö Linna. While his Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier, 1954) is his most famous novel and probably the most known novel in Finnish in Finland, this incipit, I think, is the most known beginning of any Finnish novel. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FrancescoP Octoglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5760 days ago 169 posts - 258 votes Speaks: Italian*, French, English, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Norwegian Studies: Georgian, Japanese, Croatian, Greek | Message 34 of 39 24 December 2008 at 7:19am | IP Logged | ||
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My favourite Finnish novel (F. E. Sillanpää's "Hurskas kurjuus") also features a protagonist called Jussi. Wish I could read it in the original... I wondered for a second but it didn't really sound like the right answer
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| Satoshi Diglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5633 days ago 215 posts - 224 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Japanese | Message 35 of 39 25 December 2008 at 4:42am | IP Logged | ||
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Someday I will have that level of Finnish... But first I must look after my japanese.
The A=A bit I knew, but I admit to googling it to be sure of the author. I thought it was Aristotle, but it seems the actual "A is A" is credited to Leibniz. It is a very basic principle in philosophy. -- FrancescoP, if archaic portuguese gets you going, try some of the trovas, written in galego-português. -- My turn: "But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." Who said that? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 5958 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 36 of 39 29 December 2008 at 1:18pm | IP Logged | ||
Some scientist, Richard Feynmann? Robert Oppenheimer? Carl Sagan? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Satoshi Diglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5633 days ago 215 posts - 224 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Japanese | Message 37 of 39 02 January 2009 at 12:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, 'twas Sagan!
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| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 5958 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 38 of 39 02 January 2009 at 1:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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My turn now:
サンタクロースをいつまで信じていたかなん てことはたわいもない世間話にもならないく らいのどうでもいいような話だが、それでも 俺がいつまでサンタなどという想像上の赤服 じーさんを信じていたかと言うとこれは確信 を持って言えるが最初から信じてなどいなか った。 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6770 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 39 of 39 12 November 2009 at 3:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Here the incipit of one of the best book ever written
"En un lugar de la Mancha , de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme , no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor " (Don Quijote de la Mancha") 1 person has voted this message useful |
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