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Someone speaking written finnish in casual day-to-day life usually means one of two things - either the speaker is somewhere on the autism spectrum (not a diagnostic criteria, but one of those "I've never seen a neurotypical person do that" things) or they speak finnish as a second language. And I don't know how to say this without sounding condescending, but I love hearing it, it's so charming. Like you stepped straight out of a 19th century play.

Standing in the line to a public bathroom, there's a man talking on the phone, speaking in finnish with a distinct accent, going "I understand, darling. Love. My love. Beloved, I understand. I understand. I will make my way there. Yes, I understand. I will make my way to you. Two hours."

@ozyga fun thing actually! The finnish written language was deliberately intentionally constructed during the 1500s during protestant reformation, in order to translate the bible into the peoples' own language. The concept of finns as a distinct people - not to mention a nation - was not even regarded as a valid thing. Finland wasn't occupied as much as just the isolated eastern half of the Swedish kingdom, whose peasants just happened to speak their own rural peasant language.

The reason why finnish is written so strictly exactly the same way it's pronounced is because the people who wrote it down were men of the church, who spoke the language as their "home language" but were educated in latin. Finnish was written down the way it phonetically sounded to people who could read and write latin.

Jokinly I always say that when the written Finnish was literally made up, Finnish speakers were not really having it and continued to use the spoken language regardless which led us to having two types of Finnish that everyone here understands. In reality it probably was that people just could not read or did not have access to education that would have taught them to read, I'm not sure as I haven't really researched this. Anyhow, all Finns understand both the written and spoken language as well the dialects, but for Finnish learners that can be a challenge. Many have said that they learned Finnish from books and then traveled to here and realized no one speaks whatever they were taught in those books.

Forget-Me-Nots  -    Karoliina Hellberg: , 2017

Finnish, b.1987-

Jakso 58 Taiteilijoita muumilaaksossa tutkielma

"Ois kiva osata maalaa tollein" ajattelin, kun katsoin muumeja uudelleen aikuisena. Mikäs siinä, opetellaan. Värit ei tässä ole ihan kohdallaan, koska mun skanneri ei suvainnut kopioida niitä kovin tarkasti enkä oo tarpeeks velho korjatakseni niitä erityisen hienosti, mut yritin. Ois täs pitäny olla jtn hahmojaki, mut jätin ne pois, koska halusin keskittyä nimenomaan taustaan. Otin kaikennäkösia taiteilijanvapauksia, eli ei oo tarkka kopio.

A study based on background art seen in a cartoon called Moomin (episode 58) which is wildly popular in Finland.