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I'm sorry Krabo, but according to my online translator your signature doesn't make any sense...

Should it?

Google translates it as:
"Riikin you throw, like, a beggar."

Winner Winner Chicken Fried Steak dinner.

With the help of a dictionary and my very basic Finnish (may Krabo forgive me if I am wrong), its says something like:
You throw like a beggar Riiki.

Don't ask me what it means though, or who Riiki is. Or if I am even right.

maybe Riiki is the Finnish version of Ricky? or Erica or Richard?

Perhaps saying someone throws like a beggar is a Finnish insult, like saying someone throws like a girl?

Welcome back Canaspie, we don't see enough of you round here anymore....

Hope u doing OK.

Please visit us more often!

Explanation: My former signature said "Heitättää niinkun Riikin kerjäläistä." -- Now it is an idiom untranslatable to other languages but it can be explained.

In the so called hunger years of severe famine in Finland, "heitättää" was a verb describing a person who was so weak of hunger they could not walk upright. Riiki (Riikki) was a Finnish name for Riga in Latvia, whose beggars ("kerjäläinen") were supposed to be even poorer than the Finnish beggars. In other words, the whole saying compared Finnish poor people with Latvian poor people. I have to admit that the whole saying makes no sense in more civilized minds. -- The Finns were the last but one European nation to be converted to Christianity. The Latvians were the last frontier.

That will be printed for the Finnish file tomorrow. The random things I learn here!

And this Finnish file is for your own studies? You got an Italian file, too?

Yes, and yes.

Tänään olen oppinut eläinten - norsu, hevonen, koira, kissa......

Excellent! Plural genetive!

It feels like beating my head against a brick wall some days. But I love it anyway.

Little by little. Don't take too much at one bite.

Edit: You are the only Internet acquaintance who I know is studying Finnish. -- This is a genuine jaw-dropper among us people.