OFF: Those wacky Finns

[John H. McCartney]

We all know the Finns produce some great music, but this
is just a bit over the edge of strange.....


scorch


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Having already won cult fame and a medal of appreciation from the pope for
translating Elvis Presley into Latin, Finnish Professor Jukka Ammondt has
just released his latest Golden Oldie -- a version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
in ancient Sumerian, the world's oldest written language.

Spoken around 4000 B.C. in what is now Iraq, Sumerian has no precise
equivalent for blue suede shoes, so the chorus now translates as "but my
sandals of sky-blue leather do not touch." Or as they'd say in the
Sumerian: "nigname si'ibakke'en, esir kus-za gingu baratag ge'en."

Dressed in blue sandals and the kind of glittery loincloth a Sumerian
Elvis might have worn in Las Vegas, Ammondt's premiere performance in
Helsinki was the highlight of a recent International Conference of
Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology.

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Hmmm... with the right musical backing it could sound like Magma...