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Wil Reidie's avatar

PSA: On the matter of what my then girlfriend first said in Finnish when I asked her to marry me, she tells me today it was "todellakin tulen". The best way of translating this is "absolutely I will"

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It's a lovely story...and now more to add to the things we share - meeting my Swiss wife when I didn't speak German and she barely spoke English was...interesting and challenging. Learning German, then discovering no one in Switzerland actually speaks German - they have their unwritten dialect that varies in every Canton and isn't close at all to German...and of course, I could write an entire piece on the challenges of working in a professional kitchen with a severe language handicap...and on it goes, which I'm sure you are more than familiar with!

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