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Old 04-23-2007, 02:14 AM   #1
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Well, exactly: erittäin hyvää syntymäpäivää, Anna! (Ja kannatan tuota isäni "lausuntoa": täytynee neuvotella tapaamisesta! )
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How does ä work alone? How does it work when paired with another?
Well, it's the a in words "dance" (if you're American, of course), "happy", "fat", "and" and so on and with another ä the vowle's just longer...
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Old 04-23-2007, 05:34 AM   #2
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Happy birthday spawn! You'll have to tell us what Lommy, Noggie and Volo have been saying to you ... once you've recovered from what will hopefully be a fantastic celebration.
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Old 04-23-2007, 05:37 AM   #3
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Old 04-23-2007, 09:56 AM   #5
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Old 04-23-2007, 03:09 PM   #6
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Well, it's the a in words "dance" (if you're American, of course), "happy", "fat", "and" and so on and with another ä the vowle's just longer...
Hmmm..... I don't say all those words the same way. Do you? But thanks!

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Old 04-23-2007, 03:19 PM   #7
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Hmmm..... I don't say all those words the same way. Do you?
I think the words "happy", "fat" and "and" have the same 'a' in them anyhow and that's the Finnish 'ä' as a phoneme, whatever dialect one speaks in English (the word "dance" is bit harder as it surely has different ways of being pronounced). Or then you people spell things much more variedly I've ever imagined... which might be true as well.
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Well as a matter of fact, Brits and Americans speak these particular words very differently. It would be hard for me to describe it without merely causing confusion by means of examples that don't hold any better than the words we're talking about themselves! (I hope that made sense )

Anyway, back to birthdays..... (sorry for the linguistic chat)
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Old 04-24-2007, 06:56 AM   #9
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Thank you very much, guys! Paljon kiitoksia synttärionnitteluista!

As you can see from Hookbill's lovely photograph, the celebration was positively riotous indeed. Unfortunately Frodo passed out at some point, but Sam and I had a ball.


ps. Kiitos kutsusta, palataan asiaan.

pps. As to the Finnish ä-sound, you can check the pronunciation by typing the words 'happy' and 'dad' into
The Free Dictionary and listening to the sound files about how they have pronounced them to hear the difference between 'ä' and 'ää', respectively.
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Old 04-25-2007, 04:12 AM   #10
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Well he can have another pint on me then! Happy Birthday to the disco king and many happy returns...
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