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[ktron]

work was excruciatingly slow today. apparently no one needs new scrubs this week.

so i got to reading the littmann stethoscope manuals. and then figuring out what all the other languages included in them are. french, spanish, italian, german, dutch, norwegian, swedish, portuguese, russian, all pretty easy to recognize. but there was this other, calling itself "suomenkielin" at the top of the page. incredibly strange looking, i could at least tell that the grammatical structure wasn't germanic or romance... i was sorta betting on icelandic.

but no. just looked it up on google. finnish. it looks like it'd be fun to learn, if you're ever at a big university and need a language credit...

now you know too. maybe if it's that boring tomorrow, i'll memorize and post all the different words for "stethoscope" up here...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I take it these are high-tech stethescopes, with nifty bells, whistles, and digital displays?

Because the traditional ones i've seen my dad lug around, don't look like you'd need an instruction manual for, especially if you made it through med school. :)

-shafi

[ktron.livejournal.com]

well, actually, the only reason it qualifies as a "manual" is because there are so gosh-darned many languages :) mostly, it's just two pages explaining what all is top-o'-the-line and warrantied over and over. oh, and i got one wrong: it has greek, not russian.