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Originally Posted by Lyandra
Thank you so much, Kellerica! Your comment put a huge smile on my face. It was lovely to get someone from Finland comment on the names, I thought they were cute as well.I think I came up with the name of Kurkela while poring over the 18th century maps of Finland, so it definitely was a real place name I borrowed for my map. I liked how it sounds.
While making the last map I couldn't help myself and looked up some more finnish words, taking care with the meanings, it's such a beautiful language and I love naming features on my maps in it. The people there probably speak it, or something resembling Finnish at least. ^^
Finnish doesn't always fare well with automatic translators due to the grammar's oddities.
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