Excuse me but how do you say “Airbag” in Finnish?
How DO you say “airbag” in Finnish?
Update: Someone in the know tells me it’s turvatyyny, which means “safety pillow.” Phew, I feel better now.
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Hello, I found your del.icio.us site through seeing who else had this Finnish language learning website tagged. Noticed you also had Dagbani on your list. How many of the languages you bookmarked do you know? It’s amazing, I’ve never met another human outside of Ghana who had even heard of Dagbani. I volunteered there for 6 months and learned a little. Are you a linguist by profession?
Hi Emily, thanks for the comment!
By no means do I speak all the languages I have linked on del.icio.us, I wish ☺. I’m really only conversant in Spanish and Portuguese, and I can get into trouble in a few other languages.
It’s funny that you mention Dagbani, I ran into again it today — I was working on some code to do statisical language identification, and for some reason, when the code gets confused, it often decides that Dagbani is the best bet, heh. Wonder why that is.
I did my bachelor’s in Linguistics at Berkeley and since then I’ve worked in mostly language-related jobs since then, in one way or another, so yeah, I guess you could say I’m a linguist by profession. Well, maybe not enough to fit the Mary Haas definition (”a linguist is someone who’s written a dictionary and a grammar”)… but there’s time. ☺
Do you have a blog? I’d like to hear more about Dagbani. I wasn’t able to find much on the web.