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[triibulinekiisu]

like to charge, reblog to cast

[alttaritar]

[kevytmaitohorsma]

Reblog this photo of a käpylehmä to have a käpylehmä in your blog

It's a trick! If you reblog you get TWO käpylehmäs in your blog!

[kevytmaitohorsma]

They're traditional Finnish toys, little cows made out of spruce cones, on their way to see the world from one tumblr blog to another

[thehoursbrightestseer]

these are creatures of the wood that whisper to children ways to gut a bird

[kevytmaitohorsma]

That's what it's like growing up in Finland, yes

[scooterplastic]

Gets so mad my pronouns change

[kevytmaitohorsma]

Finns when they switch from "se" to "hän" to show their disdain towards this person they're talking about

[enchantedbook]

'Alice in Wonderland' illustrated by Tove Jannson, 1959

[yukinyaminyato]

tätäkö on suomalaisuus pähkinänkuoressa

[iibislintu]

Animals in Finnish proverbs

to have your own cow in the ditch

to have a fox tail under your arm

not to be riding a rabbit

to perform a bear's service

a horse too will kick you out of love

to transform a little fly into a little bull

to end up in the wolf's mouth

may the wolf bless

to be a goat guarding the cabbage patch

to be [somewhere as quick] as a stoat

let the horse do the worrying, it's got a bigger head

herring is a small fish for Christmas

[akublogi]

XU GEM 104 Pohjan Ankka

Aku Ankka Jumbo 16 - Kesäherkku (2009)

Piirtäjät: Pat Block & Shelly Block

Laitetaan nyt tämä netti-klassikkokin tänne, kun kerran vastaan tuli.

[kinuskikakku]

Kun minä olin lapsi joskus 1970-luvulla tai milloin lie ei ollut mitään Wilmaa vaan oli Reissuvihko(tm), A6 koon vihko, jota piti aina kantaa mukana jotta opettaja saattoi kirjoittaa sinne kotona luettavia merkintöjä joita vanhempani eivät sitten koskaan lukeneet.

edit: typottamani A5 korjattu A6:ksi.

[gluom]

part ii: leave my ass olone

[homunculus-argument]

[roskiskoira]

[alucardsinep]

[hisisisnkos-hississasi-hisisien]

"hommaa ittelles jotain kivaa" mä sanon, kun ojennan sulle tyhjän muovipullon pantitettavaks

[returquoise]

Anteeks mutta mun on pakko saada lukee tää

MÖLKKY MANGA MÖLULULU

[kevytmaitohorsma]

"the most talked-about new sport right now"

mitä

[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.

[triibulinekiisu]

Vaikka minä puhuisin ihmisten ja enkelien kielillä mutta minulta puuttuisivat suuret luonnolliset,

[isaksbestpillow]

Finnish small talk in january: we're heading towards spring. It'll come, it'll come.

Finnish small talk one day after summer solstice: winter is coming.