Shine alive

I don't even know anymore what this blog is about.

[greelin]

saying something you know will make people laugh. And they do laugh.

[lily-learns-finnish]

I literally just found out another word for "omena" (apple) is "omppu", and another word for "banaani" (banana) is "bansku".

I learnt these from my children so I don't know if this is just something kids say.

[linguini17]

Also, pottu (peruna 🍑), tomsku (tomaatti🍅), aplari (appelsini🍊).

[inseparabiles]

And piparkakku -> pipari, jäätelö -> jätski.

Finnish speakers really look at our own words and go, you know what it's a good word, but now that I've considered it I've decided that we'll have as little of it as we can get away with from now on.

[iibislintu]

Works with place names as well!

Pitäjänmäki > Pitsku

Malminkartano > Maltsu

Pukinmäki > Puksu

Myyrmäki > Myrtsi

Martinlaakso > Martsari

and then sometimes the shortened version is the Swedish translation but made sound Finnish

Kauniainen > Grankulla > Grani

Kauklahti > Köklax > Kökkeli

Tapanila > Mosabacka > Mosa

[kevytmaitohorsma]

How can you say these without including

Helsinki > Hesa

[returquoise]

Also sometimes Finnish just takes a u turn through symbolic meanings, a foreign language besides Swedish and we end up with things like

Tampere -> (an industrial city with focus on textile manufacturing) -> Manchester -> Manse

[candlesoul]

mood

[kuuttituutti]

Hyvää transnäkyvyyden päivää kaikille!

[cannibalchicken]

[eepyuwu]

He’s taking a nap

[karinyosa]

people will be like how come everything always comes back to race/gender/class/capitalism/imperialism with you well that is called living in a system

[frontmansdog]

mentally taking a drag of my mental cigarette because I don’t smoke but life has been very smokable lately

[pigeon-butch]

your muscles being pleasantly sore after exercise is such a nice incentive I can see why they patched that in. the forced regular logins to avoid losing progress however are a predatory practice and deserve nothing but scorn.

[corvid-language-library]

The sooner you start, the sooner you'll be done with it and the sooner you can stop thinking about it. Go on, up you get, it won't be as bad as you think.

[corvid-language-library]

You won't want to do it later either. You might as well just do it now. Even if you don't finish it all, anything you manage to get done now is something you don't have to do later (when you still won't want to do it)

[teathattast]

[bizarrepotpourri]

IT SNODE.

[kaappihomokumppani]

Pölläni on mystytetty

[tvandfilm]

CHERNOBYL (2019) created by Craig Mazin

[sailermoon]

be careful with what series you watch/read during emotional points in your life because they will forever contain a ghost of your past self within it now

[sailermoon]

[michaelnordeman]

Ice formations in Frövettern. Värmland, Sweden (January 6, 2021).

[redacted-metallum]

Let's outlive some motherfuckers this year

[littleredblueberry]

THE GOAT HAS FALLEN

Looking forward to a great 2026

[sobadbad]

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