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If we are talking about Finns attempting to learn Turkish or Korean then no one, surely, is going to argue that point, except to make the observation, perhaps, that such hapless Finns are going to have to operate via an interlingua (and its dictionaries), such as English, German, or Russian.
Worse, Grant's linguistically hapless gangster--Mickey Blue Eyes--never makes a climactic reappearance, so the filmmakers waste their best invention.
Retailers seem to turn round wholesale on their hapless customers with outrageous demands.
By fall of 1972, in full contest with the hapless George McGovern, Nixon was enjoying 60 percent-plus popularity.
For that matter, those hapless aliens can't stay ahead of the doughty X-Files team without a conspiratorial collaboration with that least effective of all entities, the U.S. government.