tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post5371581912920531893..comments2023-10-04T17:13:47.394+03:00Comments on future of my past: 2Anna MRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801478271766064478noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-72429705959561872152012-02-02T12:34:08.649+02:002012-02-02T12:34:08.649+02:00Well if it were last spring after the parliamentar...Well if it were last spring after the parliamentary election disaster, I'd tell you not to bother, that this country is going to The Dogs (no offence, dogs of the world, just a figure of speech), because it really for a moment felt like there was some bad history in the making. <br /><br />However, the future is looking better now - whether Our Pekka succeeds or not, the movement against right-wing populism has shown itself to be bigger than just me (fancy that) and, well, that feels good. <br /><br />Funny I never thought about how "orjuuden" would look when read in any other language but no, not a single whisper about the Chosen People. [She puts on her boring linguist's hat.] "Orja" is "slave", "orjuus" is "slavery", and "orjuuden" is one of the seventeen cases of nouns (no, don't ask, please) applied to "orjuus", and blah… blah… blah… [her voice is heard droning onto eternity, because like all Finns, she mistakenly believes that the unimportant grammatical intricacies of her tricky tongue are of interest to all other nations of the world].<br /><br />However, since you express interest in this fair tongue of ours, I send you this vid where you can hear a bunch of clever people talk this lingo. As an extra bonus, at 1:52 you get to see my favourite professor being super intelligent and handsome (as always). <br /><br />And you know, when you do move here, you'll make the country a better place by far. <br /><br />xAnna MRhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2VhA-Z3GwM&feature=relatednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-27089115544990279712012-02-01T21:13:36.536+02:002012-02-01T21:13:36.536+02:00Love the singing and the whole scene of them and t...Love the singing and the whole scene of them and the so-not-english-or-american onlookers. And if Mr. Haavisto succeeds then I think I should move to Finland. I have thought so for a while, actually, and this would clinch it. I take it that 'orjuuden' is saying something very good about the four-be-twos? Not sure about das Herrenvolk, but let that pass. <br /><br />I go now to listen again and pretend I am Finnish and just waiting to catch my train back to the igloo, when all of a sudden ....Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.com