Anglicization

[Jonathan Lighter]

Reason tells me that "Finn Land" (rhymes with "Ayn Rand") must be correct,
so from now on I'm using that.

(NOTE: Intended as satire, though not intended to cure, treat, prevent or
have any effect whatsoever on any condition now known or to be discovered in
the future.  However, the various points made in this thread so far make me
uncertain as to what precisely the above statement satirizes,)

JL

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Michael Covarrubias <mcovarru at purdue.edu>wrote:

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> On Oct9, 2010, at 2:12 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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> > I heard the Prime Minister of Finland pronounce
> > his country's name ~Feenlind.  I thought it was
> > the damnedest thing that a Prime Minister
> > wouldn't get his country's name right.
> >
>
> haha?
>
> we've of course given up on helping you understand certain key linguistic
> principles. but if nothing else, can you see that your dogmatic and misled
> statements might sometimes get in the way of your jokes being understood as
> jokes. because i really don't know if you're serious about this. if i could
> chuckle confidently, i would.
>
> you've really deflated every future absurd joke you might possibly make.
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