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Couple of funny ones in Finnish:

"Kuusi palaa" has at least six different meanings: 1) your moon is burning, 2) pruce tree is burning, 3) number six is burning, 4) a part of something is burning, 5) pruce tree returns, and 6) your moon returns.

"Kokoa kokoon koko kokko!" "Koko kokko kokoonko?" "Koko kokko kokoon!"

Which translates to a conversation between two parties on the building of a bonfire.



Wait, so you’re saying Finns have no way to distinguish between “your moon is burning” and “pruce tree returns”??? No wonder Nokia failed.




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