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Finnish: Aja hiljaa sillalla.
English: Drive slowly on the bridge (literally means drive quietly on the bridge
A phrase found often on the Finnish street signs near bridges, this sentence has been voted as the most beautiful sentence in any language by European polls. Pronunciation can be found here.
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August 2010
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Finnish: Ei elämästä selviä hengissä. English: You won’t survive life.
What the saying means: No matter how you live your life, sooner or later you are going to die anyway.
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Minun nimeni on _____________
My name is ____________
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Finnish: Ei se mikään ruusu ole mutta kukkiihan se perunakin.” English: It’s not a rose but even potatos bloom too.
What the saying means: A phrase used for mocking ugly women ie. comparing a woman with a potato instead of a rose. Potatoes may be ugly but they are useful as they are edible, while roses are merely beautiful but have no other use.
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Hyväntahtoinen aurinko katseli heitä. Se ei...
The benevolent sun watched them. By no means was it angry at them. Perhaps it even felt a kind of compassion towards them. Jolly good brothers.
-Väinö Linna: The Unknown Soldier
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July 2010
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