It is easy to see that Finnish society was an agrarian society while the language of byrocracy was developing. The word for loophole in Finnish is ‘porseenreikä’ eg, ‘piglet’s hole’. If you ever have tended piglets you know that they can escape from the tiniest hole there is, much like cats.
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Topi Linkala:
July 4th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
It is easy to see that Finnish society was an agrarian society while the language of byrocracy was developing. The word for loophole in Finnish is ‘porseenreikä’ eg, ‘piglet’s hole’. If you ever have tended piglets you know that they can escape from the tiniest hole there is, much like cats.