Talk:Teräs Käsi

"Hand of your blade"

I removed this part: "In colloquial Finnish, the name makes grammatical sense if the first word is interpreted as terä (blade) with the possessive suffix -s, in which case the literal meaning would be "the hand of your blade". Even so, the content of the phrase remains nonsensical."

The reason was that I find it so far fetched as to be an invention of the writer who first introduced this. It is also irrelevent, if not downright confusing for the reader. The paragraph itself admits its own irrelevance by noting how nonsensical the phrase is. Better not include nonsensical parts I think.

Besides, I think the prober writing of the phrase might be with apostrophe to signify the missing 'i' of the genetive ("teräsi käsi" -> "teräs' käsi"). The Merciful 09:09, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

The apostrophe isn't necessary as long as you're being consistent about writing in the spoken form of language, in which case the omitting of the genetive suffix is a feature of the mode of language instead of a poetic liberty or a stylistic effect. I certainly don't think it was irrelevant in a section of the article concerning the name's linguistic background - though arguably there's too much clutter as it is, as the book author states behind the link that he didn't really mean anything by it, himself.

I don't care as far as to create a ruckus over the issue, just thought that it might fit alongside the other trivial information. --Lorkki 02:06, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Merge this article

but to where? --Allemandtando (talk) 13:58, 2 July 2008 (UTC)