Talk:Alku and Alku Toinen

Toinen =/= two
"Toinen", in Finnish, does not mean "two" as claimed in the article (perpetuating the mistake in the cited source), but rather "second" or "other". I don't want to just go ahead and correct that sentence, though, as it would then contradict the source. I also don't know which of the two meanings the creators had in mind, and therefore which one to correct it to, as both are possible in this context. Would a footnote be a good approach to deal with this — thoughts, anyone? DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:00, 23 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks for opening this thread. I think "second" would make more sense, as it is just the ordinal version of "two". I don't think it would contradict the source, so I have gone and changed it. epicgenius (talk) 15:30, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, happy with that, thanks. The other reason why I wasn't sure how to handle this was that "other" would also have worked here, as in "the other place", but I doubt whoever came up with the names documented their reasoning, so let's leave it as it stands. DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:58, 23 December 2019 (UTC)