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  • Swedish for coffee. Also a verb: to drink coffee.

    March 7, 2009

  • Don't ask for this in Italy. Please.

    March 7, 2009

  • Maybe you are referring to... figa? :o] I knew that. I also knew that you can never say "Look, (at) the sea!" in Finnish in Italy. It would be: Katso merta!

    March 7, 2009

  • Ha! :-)

    And there I was, standing on the headland at Turku, part-Moomin-dreamer and part-wide-eyed foreigner, gazing devoutly out to sea for signs of something interesting. Look!

    March 7, 2009

  • according to them, it means "coffee and cake", that is, a whole branch of cuisine

    October 4, 2009