"If you know anybody who can translate from Maltese to Finnish," says [translation] head Karl-Johann Loennroth, "please let us know."

Darn! And I have a cousin who speaks Maltese, Italian, and English. So nearby, so faraway. Don't think she's looking for a job, though. On the serious side, Maltese is the only Semitic language I know of that uses the Latin alphabet.