Wednesday, June 27, 2012

What exactly is a Muumi?

My American readers will answer:
What are you smoking?

My Finnish reader will gasp (and then answer:)
You've never heard of Muumi?

My other readers may just be curious.



There you go. They live in a valley

My curiousity stems from the Finnish phrase: ’ei ole kaikki muumit laaksossa’ which literally translated means, "Not all the Moomins are in the valley,"  with the equivalence of the phrase "Not firing on all cylinders"; that one is rather stupid. Therefore I assumed that Moomins were some kind of domesticated animal raised in Finland. Obviously you would be an idiot to let them out of your valley and risk ruined profits!  Well... perhaps my moomins are not all in the valley, eh?

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