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Also notice that the corpus is of 59m words, and the least frequent word, the proper name Tomás, occurred 28 times. Anything beyond this occurred less than once in every 2 million words in the corpus. I checked Nick Brown's book. His 10,000 words are all the words that occur more than 8 times per million words. On that basis, every word in the Finnish list beyond number 9410 would occur less frequency than 8 times per million. The other...

(sorry, my mistake, thought the link doesn't work but yes it does)

minä sinä hän me te he älä sinä homo perseeseen vetele

Sanahelinä on kielitaistelu Kirjoittakaamme vain suomeksi, ei englanniksi.

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d1946563 wrote: The least frequent noun in the list is valtiovierailu. What does this mean? Valtio is power. Vierailu is visitation or call. But valtiovierailu??? According to wikipedia its a state visit in english.

d1946563 wrote: This is from an academic corpus. They used to have a 10,000 list of SWedish on the same site, but it is gone. Rob, do you think if someone new all the words on this list, it would give good coverage for ordinary purposes? Word 9985 is ympärivuotinen. What does it mean and how rare is it? Well...I think you first have to clarify what a particular study considers to be discreet words....you know...are "is",...

Interesting to note that the Finns are somewhat melancholy, but then considering their struggles it all makes sense. My grandmother could play the Spanish guitar and her songs were often very sad sounding - nothing like our country music or Spanish flamenco. On the other hand she was so loving, kind and she had that "SISU" which we saw and learned about. I see that strength in my sister. My grandmother needed it as she was...

blaugrau wrote: Could someone explain what this abbreviation stands for? Is it something like "the above mentioned"? Many thanks! No, it's not quite "above mentioned"... ao. is asianomainen ("concerned") For example: kaikille asianomaisille - for all concerned This is a handy site for seeking out Finnish abbreviations: http://www.lyhenne.org/ Although I would have named it www.lyh.org

>> No, it means - what is your objective wit this crap - and its not asking "what he means" as we are not interested in his content - we are interested what his objective of conveying is. << It was "opinto" ( the gibberish writer ) who wrote "Mihin sillä pyrit ?" and that was "opinto"´s response to EP´s "Eikä tämä...