From frv95ihn@legolas.mdh.se Mon May 29 11:00:13 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: marek@enteract.com Received: (qmail 43202 invoked from network); 29 May 2000 16:00:13 -0000 Received: from legolas.mdh.se (frv95ihn@130.243.77.20) by pop3-2.enteract.com with SMTP; 29 May 2000 16:00:13 -0000 Received: by legolas.mdh.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA23889; Mon, 29 May 2000 18:00:09 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 18:00:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ilse X-Sender: frv95ihn@legolas.mdh.se To: Marek Lugowski Subject: Re: Aki Kaurismaki In-Reply-To: <20000529070232.A48710@enteract.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Content-Length: 1323 X-IMAPbase: 1513428017 0000000001 X-UID: 1 > Have you seen it? I would imagine so. If so, did you think of Galveston > (where the long-lost cousin washes up, and where Vladimir the leader > tells the L.C. that they don't need food, they need sunshine and air) > when posting Annie? I haven't seen it. > I noticed Kari is a male name in Finnish. Is it also female? It's a male name in Finland and a female name in Norway. The Norwegian pronunciation is ['kaari]. > My url > to Finnish names is at my NT at work. More generally, is there a subtle > way of recognizing boy / girl names in Finnish or do you just remember? We just remember/know. Kari, Mika, Juha, Mikko, Aarre, Kalle, Tenho, Onni are all male names. Mari, Riikka, Keiju, Anu, Satu, Pilvi, Assi, Marketta, Virpi are female. Vieno and Kaino are old unisex names. Aarre: treasure Onni: luck Tenho: enchantment are all kind of old-fashioned. Satu: fairy tale Pilvi: cloud Keiju: fairy > It was kind of sad and kind of funny to see America this way with you > in my head or me in your head or me in my idea of your head. Anyway. > Have you seen all his movies? And his brother's? No, only a few. /Ilse -- "I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation." -- Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins http://www.mds.mdh.se/~frv95ihn/