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in addition to my previous post

OC Questions

After seeing a lot of the same questions in OC asks, thought I’d write a few of my own lol. Send an emoji and and for which OC:

🩸 - Does your OC believe in blood being thicker than water? (meaning family relationships and loyalties are the most important)

✂️ - What kind of thing would have your OC cut someone out of their life? How likely are they to let someone back in?

🎭 - Does your OC show different sides of themselves to different people?

🩺 - Does your OC accept help easily? Are they willing to admit when they need help?

💡 - How does your OC enact plans? Do they plan down to the smallest details, or do the wing it?

🌋 - What’s your OCs temper like? Are they a slow boil, or an instant explosion?

⏰ - What is your OC like at timekeeping? Are they punctual, or always running late?

🎁 - What kind of gift-giver are they? Do they give thoughtful gifts? Expensive gifts? Practical gifts?

📎 - How organised is your OC? Do they keep on top of responsibilities, or leave things to the last minute?

🧸 - On a scale of 1 - 10, how ‘soft’ is your OC? 1 being the edgiest of edges and 10 being a literal teddy bear that cries at everything? (Bonus questions, where on the scale would your OC place themselves, and where would they like to be on the scale?)

💬 - Is your OC much of a talker? Do they only speak when spoken to? (Or not even then?) Do they ever talk over others?

🌅 - What is your OCs favourite time of day? Are they a morning person or a night owl?

🥦 - Does your OC eat healthily or live off junk food?

🍹 - Does your OC drink? If so, what’s their drink of choice?

🍺 - What kind of drunk are they? (e.g. talkative, sleepy, flirty etc.)

#i miss talking about all my little guys!#and i might have some time this weekend so! 🤞

alnitaks

starry.eyed.stitcher

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gailcarriger

#oc: elsa #elsa x harvey

leztat-deactivated20230701

Be not afraid.

MIDNIGHT MASS (2021)

#midnight mass #q

homunculus-argument

The fun thing about finnish is that formal written finnish is technically speaking a distinct dialect that's different from all spoken dialects, and while fiction is almost always written with written finnish, many authors will have the dialogue spelled out in spoken dialects to give the text more "real", naturally flowing flavour.

Someone speaking written finnish in casual day-to-day life usually means one of two things - either the speaker is somewhere on the autism spectrum (not a diagnostic criteria, but one of those "I've never seen a neurotypical person do that" things) or they speak finnish as a second language. And I don't know how to say this without sounding condescending, but I love hearing it, it's so charming. Like you stepped straight out of a 19th century play.

Standing in the line to a public bathroom, there's a man talking on the phone, speaking in finnish with a distinct accent, going "I understand, darling. Love. My love. Beloved, I understand. I understand. I will make my way there. Yes, I understand. I will make my way to you. Two hours."

And now that I wrote that out, I can see that there is no way to express in english just how delightfully formal and "writing a love letter with ink on paper to your beloved promising to come back from the war" it sounds when someone in finnish says "rakkaani, minä ymmärrän, minä tulen luoksesi."

homunculus-argument

@ozyga fun thing actually! The finnish written language was deliberately intentionally constructed during the 1500s during protestant reformation, in order to translate the bible into the peoples' own language. The concept of finns as a distinct people - not to mention a nation - was not even regarded as a valid thing. Finland wasn't occupied as much as just the isolated eastern half of the Swedish kingdom, whose peasants just happened to speak their own rural peasant language.

The reason why finnish is written so strictly exactly the same way it's pronounced is because the people who wrote it down were men of the church, who spoke the language as their "home language" but were educated in latin. Finnish was written down the way it phonetically sounded to people who could read and write latin.

And while I will now pause to aknowledge that the "fathers of the finnish language" were Problematic™ by 21st century Tumblr standards, the written form of finnish was constructed by intentionally mixing together different dialects of the spoken language, to tie them all together to an uniform standardised common finnish.

mcrmadness

To add to this: spoken Finnish existed for a really long time before people (or one man) decided that it needs to have a written form too and combined two "different" type of Finnish into one (which is why the dialects are separated into Eastern and Western dialects, as they are basically the same language but also not because the proto-language for both is a different one. Eastern dialects share the same protolanguage as Karelian, whereas Western dialects developed from just proto-Finnic or such iirc). Then this guy also added and made up lots of new words.

Jokinly I always say that when the written Finnish was literally made up, Finnish speakers were not really having it and continued to use the spoken language regardless which led us to having two types of Finnish that everyone here understands. In reality it probably was that people just could not read or did not have access to education that would have taught them to read, I'm not sure as I haven't really researched this. Anyhow, all Finns understand both the written and spoken language as well the dialects, but for Finnish learners that can be a challenge. Many have said that they learned Finnish from books and then traveled to here and realized no one speaks whatever they were taught in those books.

I also find it very fascinating that so many words in Finnish have 1-3 synonyms because we have the spoken language version(s) and then the written language version, but also loan words from either Swedish and/or Russian. And then of course regional differences between different dialects, e.g. naturally the Russian/Slavic loan words are more common in the East.

harakkataihaarukka

As someone who learns Finnish and lives in Finland I speak a weird mix of written and spoken language (with so many mistakes but we manage...). But also the spoken part is the Helsinki version although I am living in East Finland.

And let me tell you, it is sooo hard to understand the spoken Finnish especially if its in another dialect than the Helsinki one because you only learn that one from textbooks. You only really learn the real spoken language (of your area) if you hear it around you regularly.

But I definitely came to love the eastern dialect.

#languages #q