international discussion on this board is not as good as on kohlchan Jow Forums, but at least the mods here are not criminal deviants
International discussion on this board is not as good as on kohlchan Jow Forums...
Isaiah Bailey
Joshua Walker
How can we make discussion better in your opinion?
Oliver Gonzalez
Fewer generals and more serious discussion.
William Collins
Ok well that will not happen. Thank you for the advice though!
Jonathan Russell
>*makes 20 threads going on incoherent ramblings about the US being a shithole and another 10 mutt threads*
>one gets deleted
>shitposters makes 5 more crying about jt
Good luck with your serious discussion
Kevin Nelson
>apuposter
Asher Foster
I'm drunk and want to vocaroo stupid shit in foreign languages but there's no vocaroo thread on Jow Forums
Shame!
Dylan Ward
post vocaroo of yourself reciting the Kalevala
Jeremiah Hernandez
vocaroo.com
Gavin Campbell
Nice.
Whenever I hear Finnish I immediately understand Tolkien's decision to use it as inspiration for his Elvish tongue: it's truly otherworldly. Mysterious Finno-Ugric soul.
Thomas Anderson
Dont invite the 4kanker hordes you crossposter
Henry Cox
>it's truly otherworldly
Yeah well it isn't Indo-European yet it shares the alphabet thanks to Swedish influence before written language was invented in Finland so the non-Germanic expressions and phonetics are fit into the Greek alphabet with a Germanic twist. It's unique, you got that right, but what I think makes it stand out to Anglos etc. is that it's not COMPLETELY different like Asian languages.
Coincidence or not, even our oldest words fit nicely into the Greek alphabet. And it's a bit silly since from our point of view we speak the Alphabet "cleanly" where as most languages don't. In Finnish a letter is a letter is a letter. It doesn't matter whether it's the first or last letter of a word, it's pronounced the same, every time. Spelling bees aren't a thing because Finnish is just letters read out in sequence so there would be no challenge.
Justin Ward
At the risk of overstaying my welcome as the fun fact guy the reason for this is probably that Finnish had such old roots as a spoken language with no written form, so the written form just kinda formed according to the phones. Languages deriving from Latin for example have been co-developing with the written form for about 2000 years. Finnish less than 200.
Landon Hill
he mad
Jeremiah Lee
>At the risk of overstaying my welcome as the fun fact guy the reason for this is probably that Finnish had such old roots as a spoken language with no written form, so the written form just kinda formed according to the phones.
Thank you for sharing. I wonder, did a similar thing occur to those Finno-Ugric languages spoken by indigenous Finnic and Ugric peoples of regions now within the Russian Federation? That is, did they adopt cyrillic or latin scripts and thus develop a highly regular orthography?
Angel Nelson
en.wikipedia.org
Karelian is officially a language, but it's like if you classified deep south redneck drawl as separate from English.
Aiden Stewart
more fun facts about finland:
youtube.com
Tyler Ortiz
>That is, did they adopt cyrillic or latin scripts
Latin was the natural development since they would read Finnish texts in the Grand Duchy of Finland (1809-1917) but you have to understand nothing in this region is "natural" since the USSR shifted populations around and had very purposeful public education system and newspapers which tried to Russianize the Karelians so modern Karelian is written with letters found in Eatern Europe (though no cyrillic)
>and thus develop a highly regular orthography?
No, it's very irregular. There's pre-war "pure" Karelian, modern Karelian, bastardization with Russian influence etc. I think the Russians have a body of government these days to standardize the language but it's kind of fundamental to the Finno-Karelian heritage to resists Russian governmental bodies so it's a whole mess.
Zachary Green
I wish one day to go to hësburger
youtu.be
Bentley Cooper
let's go together fren
Joshua Gonzalez
You really shouldn't. Only the poorest country folk who literally have one fast food restaurant in their town eat Hesburger. It's like the 82th best burger joint in Helsinki.
Angel Rodriguez
then what is number 1?!
Jackson Gutierrez
Some good ones:
burgerjoint.fi
bites.fi
friendsandbrgrs.com
Andrew Myers
bann all americans
Julian Clark
Far out countryside does not have McDonalds and you can't really say if Hesburger is better or worse, it's just different.
Christian Hernandez
The fact that you're instinctively comparing it to McD only cements my argument. There's three burger places better than McD or Hese within 300 meter walking distance of my house.
Only country folk who have to go to a gas station to get warm food after 9PM eat Hese.
Sure, if you don't like the grease and cheese served to you 24h at Macca's you can go for the steamed bun with nothing but mayo and lettuce. Or you could just not go to either one.
Robert Nguyen
Can you tell me about life in the Finnish countryside? Is it cozy? Do you all have wood stoves and pet otters like the old man from this video?
Brody Wood
>Can you tell me about life in the Finnish countryside?
No I've never lived outside of Kehä I except for abroad
>Is it cozy?
No
>Do you all have wood stoves and pet otters like the old man from this video?
Probably not. It's just deteriorating small houses, 70s government housing and dying businesses.