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Switzerland beat USA for years. 3%unemployment., educated people, low crimes ...
Even Tina Turner is now Swiss.
USA is a rat hole to avoid at all cost. This is why irs is based in usa.
Its hard to compare a country that's 315 million to a country with 7 million, I mean 7 million people in the USA is less people than the city of Houston, TX. Its harder to control such a large developed country...
Finnish is a weird language, because it has only 9 consonantal phonemes. English has 19. Japanese has about 11 which are discernible to the western ear. Hawaiian has only 8.
That doesn't bother me as much as the 15 noun cases.
Actually, Australia didn't even exist at the time. Tasmania was then a British penal colony directly administered out of the UK, with a local governor. It was pretty brutal for the convicts sent there as well.
There are a lot of current day Tasmanians of (at least part) Tasmanian indigenous ancestry. You'll get quite a reaction if you tell them Tasmanian Aboriginals have all died out. They are quite distinct from mainland aboriginals.
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For me the faith of all aboriginals is the same,australian did a good job exterminating their own aboriginals.
Even today Australia is not the friendliest country to its neighbours.
I don't think Finnish is a weird language, perhaps only different of what we would expect for a nordic country. It sounds much like japanese, for those who don't know both languages.
That doesn't bother me as much as the 15 noun cases.
But the noun cases are not what makes it sound like Japanese. To a person who doesn't understand it, any language is nothing but a sequence of phonemes, and languages sound strange if they have frequent repetition of very few phonemes.
One thing that makes Finnish and Japanese sound very different if the frequent use of umlauts in Finnish, whereas I don't think Japanese has any. Also, Finnish stress patterns are very regular, while Japanese is stressed subtly or not at all.
Finnish is probably more closely related to Japanese than to Swedish, in the Uralo-Altaic linguistic family.
But the noun cases are not what makes it sound like Japanese. To a person who doesn't understand it, any language is nothing but a sequence of phonemes, and languages sound strange if they have frequent repetition of very few phonemes.
Technically, some languages may only have a few phonemes but many allophones. Japanese actually has 5 vowel phonemes only, but there are more allophones.
But the noun cases are not what makes it sound like Japanese. To a person who doesn't understand it, any language is nothing but a sequence of phonemes, and languages sound strange if they have frequent repetition of very few phonemes.
One thing that makes Finnish and Japanese sound very different if the frequent use of umlauts in Finnish, whereas I don't think Japanese has any. Also, Finnish stress patterns are very regular, while Japanese is stressed subtly or not at all.
Finnish is probably more closely related to Japanese than to Swedish, in the Uralo-Altaic linguistic family.
Have we drifted off topic?
Sorry, thought you were just referring to the fact that it was 'weird' in a general sense, not in a specific.
Maybe guys you should travel a little bit more than staying all your life in your lousy state filled with cars, rednecks and Cowboys...
The world is not only north Korea and Afghanistan... Ask Mac Donald!
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