Zippy the Finnhead

Finnish is hard. God is easy

Rocco Caputo pointed out a Zippy comic sporting some Finnish and asked me to translate the text.

  • Frame 1: The men are in the street.
  • Frame 2: I bought this book last summer in London. [ typo as Täm än should read Tämän ]
  • Frame 3: We got firewood from the forest in the evening.

It is not Finnish of any great portent, but Zippy always gives you the feeling like there is more than meets the eye. People who aren't from the US won't get the Big Boy reference, home of the original double-decker hamburger, as part classic icon of American pop culture and part roadside attraction. I think Zippy is being misled by a fat little boy holding a tray of food since it is learning Finnish, not a remote deity speaking Finnish, that is hard. :)

**permalink Ω 18 May 2003, Helsinki

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