Word of the day, 9th of October, 2006

[tonique]

ryömintäkaista:
- ryömintä: < ryömiä 'to crawl'
- kaista: 'lane', also colloquially 'crazy'
So, a "ryömintäkaista" is a lane where you creep, that is, move slowly. Is the English word slow lane?
Other classy words connected to these are...
- liejuryömijä 'mudskipper' -- kind of fish that are amphibious (subfamily Oxudercinae).
- kaistapää 'crazy,

Comments

[lunacia]

As I told my friend: your language looks as if someone has taken a bunch of letters and just put together randomly. ;)

Souminlinna was beautiful with its autumn colours.

[tonique]

And Norwegian looks like skewed Swedish to me. :p Suomenlinna really is beautiful in any season, I guess.

[lunacia]

Hehe, I guess it does. Norwegian and Swedish have a lot in common.

Suomenlinna is, I guess too, always beautiful. I'm looking forward to upload my photos from it in autumn, though. It was so nice to be there with my friend R (whom I met at Jafnaðr).

[skittlekicker]

Yeah, it's the slow lane. :] The part of the highway way over to the right where you don't normally travel unless something's wrong with your car is the breakdown lane. The fast lane is all the way on the left.