Evil, evil Finland

[Kerkko-3]

Yet another Finland - Freak joins the club...

[Lars-E]

Originally posted by Starchild
I suggest we bring Bugs before a tribunal on the charges of Finn-related crimes against humanity.

Fingerpoints:

I saw him do it!

[devilmunchkin]

laz..you've succeeded in creating another Suomithreadi! (i say that because i'm not sure at all what it means, although i gather that threadi might mean thread????)

[Kassiopeia]

Finnthread = Suomithreadi. But we are quite keen on keeping the Finnish talk in the confines of our very own thread.

Albeit complete translation would be Finlandthread, as Suomi = Finland.

[devilmunchkin]

how do you pronouce it? (i.e. can you spell it phonetically). i don't think it's all bad. i think it's kinda cool that you dont conform.

[makev80]

Count one more

You'll never get rid of us.

[The Mad Monk]

So...anyone here into TBS gaming?

[Anodyne]

Originally posted by devilmunchkin
how do you pronouce it? (i.e. can you spell it phonetically). i don't think it's all bad. i think it's kinda cool that you dont conform.

Actually, Finland is almost 100% phonetic language, so it's pronounced [suomi]...but you English-speakers won't know how it sounds anyway
u = like 'u' in 'put'
o = like 'o' in 'lost'
i = like 'i' in 'hit'

[Mixu]

Originally posted by Ade


Actually, Finland is almost 100% phonetic language, so it's pronounced [suomi]...but you English-speakers won't know how it sounds anyway
u = like 'u' in 'put'
o = like 'o' in 'lost'
i = like 'i' in 'hit'

Didn't someone just say that finnish language is very exotic because of it's many vocals (or vowels?) ?

[Wilderess]

Devilmunchkin (btw, you've got one of the best avatars of the forums):

Sound samples of Finnish names. Click on Geographical names > longer list > Suomi.

Greetings and stuff as sound samples by Helsingin Sanomat.

[Anodyne]

Originally posted by Mixu
Didn't someone just say that finnish language is very exotic because of it's many vocals (or vowels?) ?

Well, Finnish has relatively more vowels than consonants, and that is very rare, I don't know of any other language that has it so...

[Jogilius]

Originally posted by Ade


Well, Finnish has relatively more vowels than consonants, and that is very rare, I don't know of any other language that has it so...

In our German book it said that "Finnisch ist wie Lateinisch rückwerts".


Anyhoo, Finnish has another rare feature in it: every letter is pronounced in the same way in every word. Just think about English: don't you have some stupid spelling contests like the one in a certain South Park episode. So if one thing is easy in Finnish, it's writing the words correct.


There are a couple of exceptions though. There are a couple of words that have only one consonant in the middle, though it's pronounced as if there were two. And a certain word ending joint thingie is often pronounced with two although written with one consonant.


Well, every language has its own illogical things. In Finnish there are a bunch of words that have a couple of meanings, but whose differential meanings are inflected in their own ways, just like the German word Die BANK (pl. Bänke / Banken depending on the meaning of the word).

[Anodyne]

Originally posted by Jogilius
There are a couple of exceptions though. There are a couple of words that have only one consonant in the middle, though it's pronounced as if there were two. And a certain word ending joint thingie is often pronounced with two although written with one consonant.

Well, Finnish double-consonants are usually a big pain in the ass for foreigners. Many find it almost impossible to pronounce our 'hh', 'kk', 'll', 'mm', 'nn', 'pp', 'rr', 'ss', 'tt', or 'jj' and 'vv'. The last two are very rare, and never found in writing. 'hh' is also written with only one 'h', but pronounced with 2, as in 'tulehan', 'menehän' and other -han/hän-ending verbs

...like someone would really care

[Jogilius]

Originally posted by Ade


Well, Finnish double-consonants are usually a big pain in the ass for foreigners. Many find it almost impossible to pronounce our 'hh', 'kk', 'll', 'mm', 'nn', 'pp', 'rr', 'ss', 'tt', or 'jj' and 'vv'. The last two are very rare, and never found in writing. 'hh' is also written with only one 'h', but pronounced with 2, as in 'tulehan', 'menehän' and other -han/hän-ending verbs

...like someone would really care

Um... give me an example of a word that has 'jj' or 'vv' in it?

But I know one word that has 'hh' written with two 'h's :

HIHHULI...

[spartak]

Hey - this is supposed to be a Finn bashing thread - not alanguage lesson