Re: De (los) Estados Unidos
From: Nigel Greenwood (ndsg_mmii_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 09/14/04
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Date: 14 Sep 2004 11:23:51 -0700
pkarjala@paju.oulu.fi (Pekka Karjalainen) wrote in message news:<slrnckdc3b.354.pkarjala@paju.oulu.fi>...
> In article <7a31b7bf.0409140019.3847e5f8@posting.google.com>, Nigel Greenwood wrote:
> >Finnish: yhdysvaltainen ("union-stately").
> >
> Slight correction: "yhdysvaltalainen".
Damn! I should have seen that -- or was I just pronouncing it à la
Bush?
I see from the dictionary that there are a number of words that do end
in -valtainen (eg "maatalousvaltainen maa", "omavaltainen ratkaisu").
So at least it wasn't too unFinnish, even if it was unAmerican.
> You are not the first one to drop
> a syllable from that word.
Most charitable of you to say so ...
Nigel
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