This got me thinking a bit

trabitom99 wrote:
Apparently, "saippuakuppinippukauppias" means "soap dish wholesale vendor" in Finnish.

Tom

I believe it would be soap cup wholesale vendor, but soap cup of course can be soap dish as more appropriate term in English, however word to word accurate is soap cup wholesale vendor, afaik.

But that is not a long word, you see we are bit crazy, not sure if we are as crazy as those guys in up north, but bit crazy.

Here is old longest word:
järjestelmällisentelentelemättömyydellänsäkään

With even his incapability to organize, might be one way to translate that, for me it is already rather difficult to translate.

However this has been thought to be one of the longest words, yes, we have competitions in forming long words
kumarreksituteskenteleentuvaisehkollaismaisekkuudellisenneskenteluttelemattomammuuksissansakaankopahan

It has something to do with bowing to person, maybe, it has no basic forms of words so it is like if you would put on in at between every word and thus it is almost impossible to me even find out which word is which, so I have no idea what that does mean, but it is recognized to be longest word.

And fellow finns are still questioning my way of thinking everything in English, it is much easier for me, even my English is not perfect, so these days I think in English and translate to Finnish when I have to say something as I do most of reading and writing in English anyway, at least I get away from those horrible words and language is rather simple

Great language

What was the name of that welsh train station again? Llanigogogogo.................th or something.

Tom

trabitom99 wrote:What was the name of that welsh train station again? Llanigogogogo.................th or something.

Same as the Volvo dealer there

how the hell do you say that?

We don't, the welsh made up their own language to confuse the english. They mostly pretend to talk until you're out of earshot

What is that almost like radiation symbol at the wall of that Volvo building?

jtbo wrote:What is that almost like radiation symbol at the wall of that Volvo building?

Department for Transport (aeons ago it was the Ministry of Transport)

It's the sign and symbol of a MOT testing station.

Speedy88 wrote:We don't, the welsh made up their own language to confuse the english. They mostly pretend to talk until you're out of earshot

makes sense... sort of

macplaxton wrote:

jtbo wrote:What is that almost like radiation symbol at the wall of that Volvo building?

Department for Transport (aeons ago it was the Ministry of Transport)

It's the sign and symbol of a MOT testing station.

Lies it means WARNIN. I R VOLVO. (In transformer language)

macplaxton wrote: Department for Transport (aeons ago it was the Ministry of Transport)

It's the sign and symbol of a MOT testing station.

Ah, interesting, we have this which is perhaps partly equalent of transport department, but our MOT stations use their own logos, there is two of them that I know of actually.


These are our MOT station logos:



There might be some that are not in those two chains and they have just their own logos, so we don't have nothing official logo to tell about MOT station, but one word that is used by all of them to describe whole line of that business, like you have that MOT.


Speedy88, I don't believe you, there is something suspicious about your reply, but can quite pinpoint what it is....

jtbo wrote:What is that almost like radiation symbol at the wall of that Volvo building?

LOL

Great pic MacP!

Tom

The translation of "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch "is......Saint Marys church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of saint tysilio of the red cave.
But commonly shortened to Llanfair P G.