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PING: Marina
Hi Marina:
I was showing Fred your cat pictures and he asked me to tell you that he worked in Finland in the town of Tampere, lived on a street called Sammonkatu, and worked at Valmet Linnovuoren Tehdas. This was in 1986. While he was there, he went to Jyvaskyla, Turku and spent a week in Helsinki! He loves languages, picks them up like velcro and had a great time making sure he pronounced every single one of those consonants. There, I've done it! Susan M Otis and Chester |
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PING: Marina
Susan M wrote:
Hi Marina: I was showing Fred your cat pictures and he asked me to tell you that he worked in Finland in the town of Tampere, lived on a street called Sammonkatu, and worked at Valmet Linnovuoren Tehdas. This was in 1986. While he was there, he went to Jyvaskyla, Turku and spent a week in Helsinki! He loves languages, picks them up like velcro and had a great time making sure he pronounced every single one of those consonants. Wow, that is a feat, especially for an English-speaker, who's used to leaving ou half the letters of a word. ;o) I'm impressed that you spelled all those names correctly. ) If he worked at Valmet, is he an engineer? My mother used to live in Tampere as a child (though not born there). -- Marina, Frank, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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PING: Marina
"Marina" wrote in message
Wow, that is a feat, especially for an English-speaker, who's used to leaving ou half the letters of a word. ;o) I'm impressed that you spelled all those names correctly. ) If he worked at Valmet, is he an engineer? My mother used to live in Tampere as a child (though not born there). Yikes - Fred is *not* an engineer!!! His skills lie more in the areas of languages, writing, and communicating. He's more of an academic, political type. I have to have all the mechanical skills for the family ... He loves saying the Finnish phrases he remembers - gets lots of mileage out of those consonants :-) Susan M Otis and Chester |
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PING: Marina
Susan M wrote:
Yikes - Fred is *not* an engineer!!! His skills lie more in the areas of languages, writing, and communicating. He's more of an academic, political type. I have to have all the mechanical skills for the family ... Oh, I should know better than to jump to conclusions. After all, I work at the Department of Computer Science myself, though I'm pretty clueless with computers. P It's just that Valmet manufactures engines and stuff, that's why I jumped to that particular conclusion. He loves saying the Finnish phrases he remembers - gets lots of mileage out of those consonants :-) LOL! Ask him to swear at you in Finnish. You will be impressed. :öP -- Marina, Frank, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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