09-22-2018, 03:24 PM | #31 | |
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09-22-2018, 03:28 PM | #32 |
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Is Estonian related to Finnish?
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09-22-2018, 03:32 PM | #33 |
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09-22-2018, 04:55 PM | #35 |
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Somewhat, as in quite a lot of words are similar, but many more aren't. If a Finnish native speaker has had no previous contact with the Estonian language at all, he/she would probably not understand much, and vice versa. Finnish also totally nativized most of their loanwords in the past (less so nowadays), but Estonians didn't and that makes mutual understanding much more difficult (for example, phone is telefon (from telephone) in Estonian, but puhelin (from puhe - speech) in Finnish).
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I belong to this group, and I want to thank you haertig for your post. It’s good advice explained in a simple way. I always wander how many people simply plug it and use it without thinking about security, I understand same people (many off mobileread readers will be in this category) know how to protect their networks, but I believe the common user doesn’t, so at least your post makes them think about it, and maybe do something to try to learn or at least take precautions.
And by the way I don’t own or use alexa. |
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