#and i don't speak finnish

[gellavonhamster]

Porvoo, Finland, August 2023

[notasocialismjoke]

Kyy kylmä nahka, kavala vihollinen, viirusilmä, maan nuora, kanerva karva, maan on synkkä syntymäsi...

It's a tragedy that 99.93% of people will never understand the masterpieces that are the lyrics of Finnish songs

[canisalbus]

at least as far as french goes, learning the genders of things is entirely memorization. and yes, learners of the language struggle with it.

in fact, if you're writing and want to convey that the person doesn't speak french too well, you have them misgender inanimate objects.

there's no rules to determine a thing's gender, not even vibes; in fact, the opposite is true: for native speakers, which gender a thing is will then color the vibes that they associate with that thing. this is why i will forever associate spiders with cunning and motherood.

and finally, i've saved the dumbest for last: in 2020, there was debate if COVID is male or female.

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[ineeded2bskinny]

How am I supposed to be freaky in my own language? Dirty talk in finnish turns me off but speaking english with a finn is also weird

[starlene]

I think the thing that's made me the person that I am is that in 2010, when I first saw Les Misérables in Åbo Svenska Teater, the part of my soul that's responsible for personal tastes and preferences got separated from the rest of me. It was then replaced by the tastes and preferences of the Swedish-speaking Finnish lady 35 years older than myself that was sitting next to me in that matinee. Ever since, I've been the way I am.

Of course, it takes two souls for a mixup like this to happen... so I wonder how the lady who got my previous taste in things is doing nowadays. How did her friends react when she told them that actually, she hates Sommaren är kort and won't be coming to Tomas Ledin's concert this summer, or any summer going forward? I feel a little sorry for her; I hope she wasn't disowned by her entire community afterwards or anything.

Not sorry enough to ever give her her soul back, of course. But a little bit.

[spotforme]

Michael speaking in tounges:

and i say this with all the affection in the world but it sounds like he's butchering them both

update: a trusty source told me his french is "actually pretty okay"

[lasthumaninwales]

Ohhh dear...

I've only listened through once admittedly, but not really a fan thus far. Maybe it'll grow on me? I definitely need to listen through headphones because I really don't think the volume I had it at was conducive to hearing it properly...

Like people have said, it just doesn't feel particularly cohesive? If the transitions were a bit smoother and there was more of, idk, a throughline? Something that ran through all the disparate bits?

That said, I didn't care for Ruoska the first time I heard it so I'm willing to give it a chance.

[milorits]

Map of Eternia

Finally did some cartography and made a map of my world Eternia. They're based of of seasons!

Carrd

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

thirsting over that pale nordic dude again.

[ginstergnom]

Why does my algorithm suddenly think I'm finnish

[bisonaari]

Wait why am i stressing so much about only learning how to express myself in written finnish, it's not like people aren't gonna understand me lol

[canisalbus]

Not dog related but have you been to Kuopio? My wife and I are planning to move there in a few years and I’m just curious what your thoughts might be as someone who actually lives in Finland. Also do you enjoy a cold dip after sauna or is that not really your thing?

I used to live in Kuopio! Spent my early childhood there. I still visit several times a year, it's one of those home-away-from-home places for me.

I don't enjoy cold, I rarely swim and I barely ever go to sauna (it always makes me feel sort of light-headed), so not my thing really :'> But if you think you might enjoy, like, the temperature shock and the adrenaline rush go for it.

[lusus--naturae]

They don't even know about Taikamies...

[vieraslaji]

hissing like an angry mongoose bc some of my mutual-adjacents are saying the english language is just a "tool" and a lingua franca can never be beautiful

tell that to Ovid my dudes

[nei-ning]

I was freaking scared to watch this but I was super happily surprised about Sukuna's English voice actor! Is his voice as fitting to Sukuna as Suwabe's? No, but it's very good still! I do like it but it doesn't beat Suwabe :'D

Also, one thing which annoys me in dubbed anime is how English speakers can't / won't pronounce Japanese names right. Like if character's name ends with a letter "o". In Japanese, just like in Finnish, it's just "o", not "ou" like English speakers say. You guys add this invisible "u" in "o". Like Gojo is Gojo, not Gojou.

[umazane-muesli]

Initial Pisara meressä faves for me are Pisara meressä, Täydellisin, Valmiit, Luotan tulevaan and Yks yö lainaa