#angloposting

[vieraslaji]

when people call me "fluent" in Finnish I'm going to start responding that I couldn't possibly be fluent because I only know the names of like, five kinds of tree

[vieraslaji]

suomen kielen sana joka tekee musta surullisinta on 'alas' ku sen takii en voi sanoo englannin alas-versioo suomeksi :(

petition to bring back saying "huzzah!" when something goes your way and "alas." when it doesn't

[insidetheskinofthesun]

The Irish Reunification of 2024 is off. Goodbye.

[2percentsugar]

Really frustrating how there were 8 million angloposts abt the front populaire winning the elections and 0 about macrons subsequent coup. Maybe electorialism really does rot brains

[vieraslaji]

searching my finnish cookbook for karjalan piirakka and this sent me to the fucking floor

[insidetheskinofthesun]

This is only slightly more terrifying than the real Mr Blobby, honestly.

“Slowly, awfully slowly, it raised its head, tilting it coquettishly to one side. Then the seams across its face split, revealing its gaping maw filled with even larger, sharper teeth. And it boomed playfully: “Bonzo? Bonzo Bonzo?”” - MAGP ep.11 🦷🦷

I despise this wretched beaſt, but I have to admit he has the range 🍽️ 🎀

[insidetheskinofthesun]

Me just after the Queen died: Well, I’m muting tumblr for a while, those dumb insensitive American teenagers will just be tastelessly shitposting about an old woman’s death! That’ll be the most annoying thing I’ll see!

Me one week into the public mourning period: come back teenagers all is forgiven

[insidetheskinofthesun]

Yet another good quiz thrown off by not controlling for not eating pork.

(Also, I'm from Lewes, I have to go to Bills! Home-town pride! Local lad made good!)

a while back someone shared this quiz in the yennskier server and let me tell you there was some confusion & consternation from the americans in the room. anyway!! regardless of nationality go find out how posh you are. :)

[vieraslaji]

it just occurred to me most Finnish learners probably don't know about this - you can listen to most of the major radio stations in Finland from anywhere in the world with the (free!) Radio Suomi app on the app store and play store. some of the music stations you can only access through another app but such is life I guess :/

it's a great way to find new popular Finnish music or random Finnish dialogue to listen to, and because it has yle news and talk stations from every region of the country, it's helpful if people are aiming for a particular dialect!

[vieraslaji]

I get so uncomfortable when my monolingual friends call me fluent in Finnish. And it doesn't matter if I tell them I'm not fluent, their response is always "well, but you speak it!"

Which like, sure, but not fluently; I don't know how to say things like "re-examine" or "hand sanitizer". I can't tell if they don't know what fluency looks like or if they're trying to make me feel better.

It's hard to correct them because I would love to be fluent in Finnish, but that's not the ultimate goal for every language or language learner. I'm perfectly happy being able to understand Japanese but not produce it, and I would like to be at least conversational in Farsi - if someone inaccurately praised my fluency in either of those languages I'd shrug it off because that's not my goal.

I guess probably what's happening is they're Americans who have never seriously tried to learn another language, so any level of acquired proficiency looks like fluency to them. I just don't really know how to respond to it without seeming like... falsely humble? Idk

[vieraslaji]

it's funny how once you spend enough time engaging with Finnish culture the spirit of Torille will eventually possess you also

I was at a concert tonight where people were showing their support for various violin concertos via applause, and when Sibelius' name was mentioned my soul briefly left my body to be replaced by civic pride for a country I'm not even a citizen of

[insidetheskinofthesun]

There’s also a version called “Mornington Crescent“ (named after a different tube station) where the goal is, essentially, to play Finchley Central but while making up wholly imaginary reasons as to why you can’t immediately say the tube station that means you win, often elaborating on the wholly imaginary rules guiding the game. It’s great fun.

The origins of The Game are uncertain. The most common hypothesis as is that The Game derives from another mental game, Finchley Central. While the original version of Finchley Central involves taking turns to name stations, in 1976 some members of the Cambridge University Science Fiction Society (CUSFS) developed a variant where the first person to think of the titular station loses. The game in this form demonstrates ironic processing, in which attempts to suppress or avoid certain thoughts make those thoughts more common or persistent than they would be at random.

How this became simplified into The Game is unknown; one hypothesis is that once it spread outside the Greater London area, among people who are less familiar with London stations, it morphed into its self-referential form. The creators of "LoseTheGame.net", a website which aims to catalogue information relating to the phenomenon, have received messages from multiple former members of the CUSFS commenting on the similarity between the Finchley Central variant and the modern Game. The first known reference to The Game is a blog post from 2002 – the author states that they "found out about it online about 6 months ago".

Finchley Central is a mind game in which two players take turns naming stations in the London Underground. The first person to name Finchley Central is the winner. Of course, the first player could say "Finchley Central" straight away, but as mathematics professor Jonathan Partington notes,

An opening move of "Finchley Central" is too much of a cheat, and you might wish to start with, say, Liverpool Street, when, assuming that your opponent isn't rude enough to reply with Finchley Central, leaves you with a mate on your second move (though you probably would prefer to stall by playing, say, Bank, in the hopes of a more spectacular win later).

It is clear that the ‘best’ time to say Finchley Central is exactly before your opponent does. Failing that it is good that he should be considering it. You could, of course, say ‘Finchley Central’ on your second turn. In that case, your opponent puffs on his cigarette and says, ‘Well… Shame on you.’

I think the American mind cannot comprehend the nature of finchley central

[vieraslaji]

btw youre telling me this thing is called an ant-pinecone in finnish?? a very reasonable naming choice, i respect it

[vieraslaji]

hot sporty butch also at this karaoke bar....... do i talk to her

[vieraslaji]

Sometimes I have an americentric thought and I have to mentally spritz myself like a cat on a countertop

[vieraslaji]

writing formal finnish (a reenactment)

ne kääntyi *rubber band twangs* ow fuck - he kääntyivät ovea kohti eikä puhunut aiheesta *rubber band twangs* god damn it eivätkä -