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The Finnish compound word "riiuuyöaie" has an amazing count of nine consecutive vowels, and it translates to "courting night intention". For foreigners, it's almost impossible to prononounce. No one actually uses the word.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

what does courting night intention mean? is that a noun or a verb?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

it means 'fucking' slocki

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link

"Potential fucking".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a variation of a better known, but shorter, vowel tongue twister, "hääyöaie", which translates to "wedding night intention".

That one definitely means fucking.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

slocki, what did you do to your post to get it a line closer to the preceding divider rule? (i know i could view source, but i can't be arsed.)

also, i know this is a tedious question of no importance at all, but it's either that or work.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

it doesn't do that here...

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I think i like finnish
are there other intentions?
my favourite greek phrase was 'po po po'
which is a general exclamation that can convey just about anything, depending on tone or inflection - shock, disgust, excitement. brilliant. oddly, only old ladies tended to use it. and me.
simon, you really are a dork aren't you?

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

It doesn't look any closer to me.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

not to me.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

ooer! it does here (IE 5 onna mac). none of the others do, though.

i'd take a snapshot but i haven't time to jizz about uploading it to my server. i shall check tonight in firefox and home and report back.

coo ur gosh internet detectivery.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

"at" home.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

(if you will use a Mac)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

[produces large black book of people who'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes, adds extra name. closes it with flourish. drops it. looks silly. blushes.]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

[pats him on the mac. er back]

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

[falls over]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

after a high-level conference involving the greatest minds of a generation (er, "after i asked stet"), we've come to the conclusion that it's because IE5 for the mac is absolute spunk. sorry, slocki, for branding you as some kind of HTML demon :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a black book

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm kind of embarrassed that everyone has been talking about my post behind my back.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

anyway grimly it's funny that you mention it, just this week cuz i'm filling in for someone at work i've been using IE5 on a mac and the same thing has been happening to me!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

slocki, i'm so glad it's not just me (and stet) who have to toil with the crash-happy abomination that is IE5 on the mac. be thankful you just have a week of it.

RJG: is it a mucky book? can i borrow it?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link

get back to work simple simon

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

i knew it was quiet round here yesterday :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

not too mucky--it is just a list of personal grievances and I am rather quick to grudge.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

*backs away slowly*

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link

it says "black book", on the spine

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link

not too mucky--it is just a list of personal grievances and I am rather quick to grudge.

does saying you look like gr43m3 virtu3 count?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, not yet

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

you haven't seen gr43m3 virtu3 recently :)

boom boom.

(nb: that's a joke. he looks the same as he ever did. ie the spit of RJG.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

; )

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, our group urinates golfer Michelle's type urine.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

eh?

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

oh. that was a title translation. clever

slow
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― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

It doesn't say black book!

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link

SORRY BLACKLIST!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Eso si que es?

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

the fuck does this mean

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 November 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link

thought this revive would have been prompted by Jeremih being in the news, for sad reasons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtcP0PFifpE

there's no ‘we’ without U and I

― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Monday, 16 November 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link

Does Ai Wei Wei ever look at himself in the mirror and think "Ai Wei Wei more than I should"?

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 06:18 (three years ago) link

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