My Voyage to Sweden
I took a trip to sweden, here's a little explanation of it


Sunday, December 15, 2002  

I went to Sweden. For the most part I was technically in Finland. The funny thing is the Finnish people call themselves "Suomi." Finland is the Swedish name for the country. So, I was in Finland, but everyone in this area, which happened to be one of the most beautiful locations on Earth, a little Archipelago named Ă…land, has Swedish ancestry and speaks Swedish. They are autonomous and demand that all official government documents be sent to them in Swedish, the language. You see, Swedish and Finnish are very different languages. Swedish is Germanic and very much like English. Finnish is tonal, I think, and more akin to Vietnamese than any of the surrounding countries. It is a very strange thing. Especially when one considers that Finland used to be a part of Sweden. Anyway, It was great

posted by Krister Rollins | 2:09 AM
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