God: No magic required

[lweisenthal]

Höh, mikä törkimys, ei se sitten haluaa jutella mun kaa suomeksi..

Eller är du kanske finlandssvensk, från Pampas eller skärin och förstår inte finska?

Hi Kayenneh,

I don't speak/read Finnish; my maternal grandparents spoke Finnish at home as their native language. All of my maternal great-grandparents immigrated to Northern Wisconsin from Finland in the 1870s, to take advantage of the Homestead Act, in which Europeans could get 160 acres of free land in certain frontier regions of the USA by clearing the land, building a house, and living in the house for several years. Both of my maternal grandparents were born on those farms in the 1880s. They spoke Finnish as their first language at home, but, of course, learned English as they were growing up and went to school. They continued to speak Finnish at home and taught their children (including my mother) Finnish. My mother, in later adult life, was pretty good at understanding Finnish, but couldn't really speak it. I did learn some cuss words and when my grandmother was pleased with me she'd say:

hyvä poika

And, of course, I used to have a sign on my wall in my office at work which said, simply:

SISU

- Larry W/HB CA