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honestlyvan · 9 months

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If you're specifically looking to write Ahti, don't rely on machine translation. Finnish is a notoriously bastard language to approximate statistically because of our dozen noun cases, inconsistent and dialect-dependent spelling and extremely fast and loose compound word rules.

Rather, go on Wiktionary's Finnish Proverbs and Finnish Idioms pages, and look for anything that looks funny (with a side-order of mentioning that it's a western Finnish/Bothnian thing, for character consistency), because Finns are also extremely overrepresented on the English-speaking internet.

#Alan Wake 2 #Ahti the Janitor #Ahti's bad English is lovingly written #it's got a lot of the kind of weird word substitutions and vocabulary inclusions that you'd expect from a strange old man like him #it's also extremely funny of him to be referencing Finnish popculture and advertisements #it's such a specific Flavour of Bloke. The people at Remedy are so silly and I love them #Also if you're someone who Speaks Bible then making him use biblical proverbs is always appropriate #as secular as Finland is we sure love our blasphemy #Alan Wake (Remedy)

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