The foreverlasting question of life

[RaNkeri]

Originally Posted by Chojin

Why is it that everyone on this board from finland speaks better english than about 50% of the people who speak it natively

Because in Finland, there is less stupid people? I once met this idiot fro, Dallas in Ragnarok Online. He was cool, but then he asked "Where r u from"? Well, I answer "Finland" ofcourse, after that there was a freezing silence between us, until he replied "In which state is it located?".

Jesus christ!

[Sethomas]

Well, it's because Finnish is a non-Indo-European language. Therefore, it's hard (on top of pointless) for other Europeans to learn, making it not quite as economically valuable in the international market as dog vomit. If you know Swedish you can at least understand Norwegian and so forth, but Finnish? Nothing, unless you're really into Hungarian.

So, they learn English so they don't starve to death.

[RaNkeri]

Actually, the popularity of Finnish has risen slightly in european schools

[MetalMilitia]

probably just because students misunderstood what was bieng introduced and thought they where finnishing school or something.
this was a hillarious pun

[executioneer]

could be because of lord of the rings

[Acidlump]

there's nothing wrong with Finland... Or is there

[executioneer]

acidlump you are very tiresome

[Sethomas]

When my sister was visiting Finland, her hosts were ecstatic that from the drive between Helsinki and Nokia they got to experience the recent unveiling of the country's third overpass. I almost wish I were joking.

[RaNkeri]

Sethomas:

I really don't see the reason why lotr would affect to the popularity of Finnish... I mean, most of the people do not even know that Tolkien used Finnish along with other languages to create elvish :/

[executioneer]

well nerds know that, and nerdiosity is getting way more popular than it used to be