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So yeah, I started doing a map with the answers I have received so far. I am really curious if there are more regions where an early happy birthday is considered bad luck or if there is some kind of pattern there so if you have know about the traditions in more countries, I’d be glad if you’d let me know!

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Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this map, this is how far we have filled it out by now! Please note that this is mostly based on what people have told me and if you disagree with how one of the countries is classified, you can send me an ask or a message. And of course the same applies if you wanna add more countries to the map!

Update time!

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Thanks again to all the countless people who have contributed! Some countries where really hard to classify (looking at you, Austria) but slowly, some patterns have begun to form and that’s really interesting to see. And of course, this is all incredibly oversimplified and only based on what people here on tumblr and irl have told me. If you wanna add to it or disagree with one of my choices, just shoot me an ask or a message!

It’s been mostly quiet now but a few people have contacted me, so now it’s time to post an updated version of the map:

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There has been a huge influx of feedback so I could add a lot more countries and update a few of the existing ones:

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@Italians: YES. I can HEAR YOU in the tags SCREAMING AT ME. Yes. #ITALYSTAYSRED. I got the message. It stays red. I promise.

communistkenobi:

the stars down to earth is such a sick title for an essay and then you read it and it’s a 50 year old german man using freud to yell at an LA Times newspaper column about astrology

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Anonymous asked:

Hello! Do you happen to know any good resources for learning Finnish? As basic as possible, I literally started on Duolingo half an hour ago:) I know, I know, I'm a poser for learning Finnish *after* Käärijä, but the language sounds soooo interesting (although I've heard the grammar is quite difficult...). Thank you in advance and also love your blog:)))))

chut-je-dors:


Hi!! So very very ecstatic that you’ve decided to learn Finnish! No reason to feel ashamed that you’d only start after Käärijä… believe me, in Finland people are just altogether very taken if a foreigner wants to learn Finnish, no matter the reason. (And all reasons for learning a language are good!) (And we’re SO SO PROUD of Käärijä, he’s done a monumental job of bringing our language to the public eye more than ANYONE ELSE BEFORE so, yup! He’s a VERY good reason to start learning Finnish!!)

I’m not sure if I’m the right person to point you towards any resources… But I tried finding some for you! I’ve checked out the Duolingo course and it’s a good place to begin! Here’s also a drive folder that has some Finnish language books as PDFs.

Also here’s a page for beginner’s Finnish from our national news media Yle (it’s like our version of BBC).

Here is a “picture book” kind of a page for learning names for objects, good to start with!

Here’s an online course for beginners! This has grammar too, and links for further reading and studying.

Finnish is also notorious for having it’s written language differ drastically from how people actually speak. We don’t have accents per se, but dialects instead, which don’t just affect the way we pronounce words (=accents, as in English) but the way we form them. So for example, the written Finnish “I am” is “minä olen”, but in spoken Finnish it can become e.g. “mä oon”, “mää oon”, “mie oon”, depending on where you live (and there might be some more variations as well but these are the most common ones.) Many foreigners find themselves in a spot where they can read and understand written Finnish pretty well, then the moment a Finnish person opens their mouth it’s a bloodbath. But don’t let it deter you! And Finnish people are more than happy to switch to written Finnish if you don’t understand them. I found this website for learning the basics for spoken Finnish!

A good place is also good ole Youtube! Just type in “Finnish for beginners” and you’re set to go!

Finnish is a difficult language to learn because of the grammar and lack of prepositions if your language has them… but look at it this way, I struggle with them in any language that uses them cos I haven’t grown up using them. I still occasionally mess up with in/on or for/to (it’s even worse with French and Swedish). Doesn’t stop me from writing 100k fics in English apparently!

Welcome to learning Finnish! Remember that the most important thing is to learn the swear words, you’ll go far with those. Just drop in a perkele and it’s always the right thing to say haha.

Jokes aside, I’m very happy to hear this! Finnish is a very beautiful language and a very inventive one as well, which allows for more word play and creativity with the language than, say, English for example. And while Finnish is difficult, you’ll find that once you’ve learnt the rules, there are no exceptions to them or the kind of hassle with the grammar as there is to English or French. I’ve known exchange students who’ve learnt near perfect Finnish in less than a year!

If anyone knows and wants to add more good resources here, go ahead!

headphonecables:

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bairisch

tatsächlich sexy

NEIN

kompliziert / schrödingers sexy / ich schreibs dir inne tags

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grymmdark:

wantonlywindswept:

wantonlywindswept:

wantonlywindswept:

wantonlywindswept:

googledocs you are getting awfully uppity for something that can’t differentiate between “its” and “it’s” correctly

oho and now you’re questioning my adverb usage? you? you?

you fucking dare?

you try to change ‘tears’ to ‘years’ for no reason but don’t catch ‘imporint’???

hey quick question gdocs

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what the fuck

querched up white boy

i don’t have screenshots, but one time i typed the word “table” into google docs in the process of writing my story, and google docs carefully underlined the first four letters (“tabl”), and asked me if perhaps i’d meant to write “table”

yes, google docs, that would be why i’d written “table”

out of curiosity i accepted the change. the word now read “tablee”

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vaspider:

I just need everyone to know that in a draft I just turned in, I referred to Ea-Nasir as the “Ur-Example of shady businessmen,” and I have never been prouder of a pun in my entire life.

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socialmaya:

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asquickaslightning asked:

Yo hi there!! Hoping you dont find this ask strange, weird or whatever you call it 😞 Just wanted to ask a favor if you could possibly check the post I pinned for my cat? Its on this blog, please do check if you have a spare time and reblog/boost it as we badly need help because there’s a mass on her leg and im so so worried 😭😭 Im so sorry if I did bother you, just need some help. Please do send me a msg to reply or answer the ask privately, please and have good day! 😭🙏🙏🐈

notgreengardens:

Huh, what a coincidence that another blog sent me the exact same ask with the exact same wording and also seems to have the exact same cat as yours with the exact same name and picture. Another fascinating coincidence is that the other blog -just like yours- only started posting less than 24 hours ago. Less well-meaning people might not call that coincidence but “using people’s compassion to scam them into giving you money.”

butchniqabi:

“jokes that transcend language 😂” These Words Are Cognates.

chococinochii:

ladygolgotha:

I put up your boyfriend for peer review and… yeah he’s published in a journal now. You can purchase 1 month of access for $32.99, or you can log in through your institution for access. Sorry.

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JSTOR???????????????

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noxtheox:

noxtheox:

Just seen a bathroom sign that says “Femmes”. Unsure if this is woke or not.

Update: the mens room says Hommes. This seafood restaurant is safe from the “woke mob” but not from the dastardly Frenchman

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