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I say, tuhatkauno, your user name is mesmerizing! Especially since it makes no sense to me! I wish I had that user name.


Thanks, we dicussed earlier the meaning of tuhatkauno somewhere. Cause the meaning is already revealed I can tell you tuhatkauno is a flower akin to daisy and it is Calculus in Finnish. I reckon tuhatkauno makes no sense to many of Finns either, since it is a very rare name of a flower. Everybody seems to connect it to Calculus. I wish I didn't spoil your impression by revealing the secret of tuhatkauno.

By the way, waveofplague doesn't open at the first glance either.

I really love tintin....That is why I chose this username. I added url at the end because I thouht that made it soud more original.

tuhatkauno, No, I am very pleased, rather than dismayed, to learn the secrets of your username. I know nothing of Finns or Finland but I do know that I'm of Norwegian ancestry.

Now I am so intrigued that I wish I knew the pronunciation of tuhatkauno. You must have gathered that I admire your username and wish I had it as my own!

waveofplague is a very old username of mine, and I picked it just because I wanted to have something immediately and not have to dwell or reflect upon something more original. I do wish in retrospect that I had chosen something Tintin-related, as most everyone else has done.

I must have come up with waveofplague when I was in my angsty teen years, probably sometime around 1998 or so. I'm not really angsty anymore.

I wish I knew the pronunciation of tuhatkauno

I am not good at this but I'll try. Let's do this by syllables, tu - hat - kau - no. Before that you need some vowels.

Finnish "u" is your "o" in the word "tonight"
Finnish "a" is your "o" in the word "come"
Finnish "o" is your "o" in the word "knowledge"

If you follow my orders, it is easy to say "au" as well, he he.

tu- say English word "to" (sharp t)
hat- say "hat" but remember Finnish "a"
kau- follow the orders above
no- say "no" in English but leave the u [nou] off

We don't use any little breaths or "spiritus" after our consonants, car [k(h)]. Well it is this simple.

In Finnish the rules of pronounciation and spelling are so simple that in three-four months a Finnish pupil reaches the same level of (fluent) reading as an English pupil in two years. Don't get me wrong, we are as clever or stupid as everybody else, but this is the only aspect of our language that is easy.

Wow, tuhatkauno, that was very interesting. I do think that I had been mentally pronouncing it correctly all along, for the most part!

I believe the Finnish translators must have looked at TOURNESOL and picked TUHATKAUNO arbitrarily. Perhaps a sunflower (tournesol) and a tuhatkauno (daisy) look similar.

A Google image search for tuhatkauno reveals this: http://www.puutarhaliikehelle.fi/gfx/sisa3/54elbe001.JPG

I am traveling in Central America and Canada very soon, and I am very excited for these trips. But I also wish I could see Finland someday! (Also Iceland, Norway, Sweden.... etc etc) I suspect the scenery is gorgeous there. Also on my maps I notice millions of lakes, tuhatkauno! Are there springs, too? Do you bathe in these?

Furthermore, tuhatkauno, I do believe you when you say your language is difficult. I took one look at the Finnish website above and was dumbfounded. All the words are so long, it looks positively German. I have studied French (for many years) and Italian but other languages look utterly, spellbindingly tricky.

Here is another tuhatkauno: http://www.tkukoulu.fi/~lagus/pro.gif

And more: http://www.proartists.com/roses/perennat/perennat-3.html

AAAAAAAAA! If that is what Finland looks like, I am on the next flight to Helsinki! I have such fond memories of Europe. I have been there a couple times and it is to die for.

The Castafiore Emerald was the first Tintin book I read. My favourite colour is green. There's an emerald ring in some of Rosemary Sutcliff's books which is handed down generation to generation. Megan Whalen Turner uses the ring as a tribute to Sutcliff in her book, The Thief. These were the first books I read and loved, after the Tintin books. I noticed the ring coincidence before I knew it was a tribute and wrote my own stories which featured an emerald ring.

So 'Emerald' suits me quite well, I think!

Hi waveofplague

I looked over the wikipedia and I found this:

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunokainen

Tuhatkauno looks like a daisy. A daisy is "päivänkakkara" in Finnish and don't ask how to pronounce it. Kaunokainen is the synonym of tuhatkauno and it's akin to päivänkakkara.

I could tell more about Finland, but I suppose The Rules forbid to have a chat off the topic here, so you or anyone can contact and ask me in my Tintin address:
teophilus.tuhatkauno[at]hotmail.com

bye

Zaveri is my name. Just added "tintin" to show off that i am a tintin fan.

Well Thomson and Thompson are called Dupond and Dupont in the french versions, so when they are referred to together they are called Dupondt

My name's simply after the first mate of Red Rackham.