Olen niin suomalainen, että sattuu

Siis hengitä pois

Puhu sairas kieli tai lepäämättä jäät

Siis hengitä pois

Huokaa kepein mielin tai lepäämättä jäät

correct: ä = ae ö = oe ü = ue (and ß = ss)

INCORRECT: ä = a ö = o ü = u

Leaving out the dots can actually change the meaning of words. Examples:

schwül: muggy, sticky schwul: gay [homosexual] ächten: to outlaw achten: to regard/respect sb./sth. schön: beautiful schon: already, yet

correct: ä = a ö = o

INCORRET ä = ae ö = oe

The Finnish ä/ö are not grammatically umlauts.

For example haen and hän are two separate, unrelated words, former meaning "I retrieve", latter meaning both "she" and "he".

So if you need to type the name Väinö, it's infinitely better to type Vaino (even though this does change the meaning from "calm spot of water" to "persecution") than Vaeinoe which is complete gibberish and difficult to pronounce. It looks even worse when there are long vowels, such as in the surname Jääskeläinen. Do not type Jaeaeskelaeinen, type Jaaskelainen.

Some other exmaples:

26 June 2026

Poetics of Abandoned II - Susanna Iivanainen  , 2023.

Finnish , b. 1973 -

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish, 1865–1931)

Lake Keitele (1905)

Genre: Pastorale

Period: Jugendstil

Oil on canvas (53 x 66 cm)

mauri got caught violating the garden box again by pooping top of momma's herbs

"Maksuttomille tapahtumille on kova kysyntä erityisesti nyt, kun yhä usempi lapsiperhe elää köyhyydessä. Pikku Kakkosen kesäkiertue alkaa nyt perjantaina."

Bomfunk MC's - In Stereo (Sony Music Entertainment, 2000) Found In: Oxfam Books and Music (Above Bar, Southampton) Price: £1.99

I feel like I should talk about the music, or at least the aesthetic - both of which, by the way, flawless Y2K representation - but all I can focus on is that damned greengrocer's apostrophe in "MC's".