#fineland

[abovethesmokestacks]

Calendar: it is April. Easter is next week. Spring has truly sprung.

Finnish weather: lol nope

[rvexillology]

Fineland

from /r/vexillologycirclejerk Top comment: Thinland

[doublexnegative]

you make me laugh until i die / can you think of any better way to choke?

[abovethesmokestacks]

Yesterday 2 pm vs today 11.30 am

Se oli varmaan sit se Suomen talvi. Kiitos ja näkemiin.

[abovethesmokestacks]

Today's Finnish fail.

I am talking to a customer. I forget the word for invoice.

I WORK IN SALES, YA'LL.

MY LITERAL JOB IS SELLING STUFF THAT PEOPLE PAY BY INVOICE AND I FORGET THE FUCKING WORD IN FINNISH FOR IT

IT'S NOT EVEN THAT HARD OF A WORD

WHAT KIND OF EPIC BRAIN FART MAKES YOU FORGET MOTHERFUCKING "LASKU"???

[abovethesmokestacks]

I had to lift this from a message exchange because it is too good:

I keep thinking I know Finnish is a supremely weird language and then I have to write "varausjärjestelmästämme" in an email and look at it for ten seconds before coming to the conclusion that yes, that is how you say "from our booking system" in Finnish.

This is a language I have studied and spoken for a good ⅔ of my life.

[abovethesmokestacks]

Today's word that I, no joke, stared at for ten minutes because it looked weird and sounded odd:

Puhelimitse (by phone)

By the time I googled it to confirm that, yup, that's how it's spelled, I had repeated it so many times under my breath that it's now just a weird sound with no meaning.

[abovethesmokestacks]

SUOMI PERKELE