What is the Estonian for "irrepressible"?From Eco soundings in yesterday's Guardian:
What do Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik and Lord Attlee, Conservative shadow Defra spokesman, have in common? Their love of the Segway Personal Transporter, the self-balancing scooter that has yet to take Britain by storm.
That failure is less down to the popularity of the bicycle, the company claims, and more because of a ban on the use of Segways on public roads. Opik and his friends will take to their Segways for a protest outside the Commons next week against the ban.
Irrepressible
ReplyDeleteI am told the Estonian is 'alistamatu' but others say this means 'indominitable' and that irrepressible is 'allasurumatu'or possibly one of these terms:
alla surumatu, alla-surumatu, elustumatu, ilastamatu, õilistumatu, elustamatu, elustumata, ilustamatu, plisseerimatu, pulseerimatu, ilastamata, ülistamatu, eelistamatu, õilistamatu, õilistumata
The easiest way to learn Estonin by the way is to learn Finnish first.
And I thought it was a rhetorical question!
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