I think you're right; but, anyway, the person who abandoned the book wasn't angry with the Finnish language. The book (published in 2006) was brandy new, almost untouched! Thanks for the Finnish palindromes, they are really as nice as In girum imus nocte ecce et consumimur igni or the well known ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ "Wash your sins, not only your face!" carved on holy water stoups in Greek churches!

One of the Finnish words foreigners try to pronounce in the above video clip is jäätelötötterö, a cone of ice cream (jäätelö = ice cream, tötterö = cone). I recently read an interesting book written by Dieter Hermann Schmitz, a German-born guy who has been living in Finland for ages and works as a German lecturer at the University of Tampere. The book was about a project where a team of linguists were in search of the most essential Finnish words. Among those words was also jäätelötötterö, a cone of ice cream. Here's how the author describes the word:

»Someone not knowing Finnish might easily think that the word jäätelötötterö is something imitating the neigh of a horse or the war cry shouted by Finnish soldiers when charging the enemy in the Thirty Years' War.«

When I worked as an ambulance driver in my salad days, I had a colleague who had a Finnish girlfriend from Turku. One day, he showed me a letter she had written him in English, but she had thought to end the letter with a Finnish word as a greeting; so my colleague asked me to tell him what the word meant. “What is this rakkandella?” Now you must imagine this word pronounced not only with an Italian accent, but also in a very Florentine way, sort of “rakkandääälla” or so. I told him that the word wasn't “rakkandella”, but “rakkaudella”, and that it means “with love”, because “rakkaus” means “love”. He was very happy, of course, and a light turned on in his head: “Aaaaaahhh...!!! So it is like rahastanzìnua!!!! (Florentines pronounce all c's between vowels as “h”). I think it's the only time I've heard Finnish words pronounced this way !!