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unikorento) wrote2019-01-18 08:38 pm
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January Journal catch up, days 16-18
Oh boy, what a week. This weekend has been a shining beacon of hope for the past five days, beckoning with angel choirs and ephemeral light. And now it's here! Just me, my couch, and minimal expectations for a day.
I'm down to just one job now for the next eight weeks, and it is liberating. At the same time, exams are starting up at school, so next week will largely be about me trying to figure out how this school uses the Abitti program, and the week after will be about correcting 92 exams and essays. I'm less than excited, even though it'll be a relief to have this period over and done with.
Anyway, January journal! More catch up!
Your favourite words in the languages you speak /falena
In Swedish, it's mössa. In English, I suppose it's called a beanie or something. It's the word for the soft hat you wear to keep your ears warm. It's got a soft sound, and the act of putting on your mössa when it's cold is really nice. I also really love the word favvo which is just an infantile way of saying favorit, i.e "favourite." I will admit that it's a little obnoxious, but I use it all the time. And I also really love the uniquely Finland-Swedish mash-up natupaita. (Standard Swedish is nattskjorta and standard Finnish is yöpaita. It means nightgown/whatever you wear to bed.)
Finland-Swedish has a lot of words or expressions that are specific to Finland and that make zero sense to standard Swedish speakers. Some are easy for monolingual Finns to understand, and some are so area-specific that even other Finland-Swedes can't figure it out.
In English, I like all pronunciations of fire. I love that RP English turns it into a triphthong especially. Faa-ee-aa! Oh, and the expression "to not know one's ass from one's elbow." Genius.
In Finnish, it's a toss-up between a few things. I really like the words where we pile on suffixes to achieve a really specific meaning for something. Or suffixes in general. I love Finnish suffixes. For example, we add variations of the suffix -tta to nouns or verbs to indicate a lack of the noun/verb. Nukkua (to sleep) --> nukkumatta (without sleeping). I like adding it to names to make silly, but technically grammatical, sentences like "Olet Annatta!" to say "You don't have Anna with you!/You are without Anna!"
I also like words that are specific to rural Finland, or my own village in particular. It's not about the sound as much as it's a way for me to indicate my rural identity while living in a city. I don't know why I feel I need to do this, but I do. So, I love words like saijua for "coffee", when the standard Finnish is kahvia, and holotna, "very cold" instead of tosi kylmä. Those are words my grandparents gave me. I also like perin instead of the standard todella, tosi for "very." I use that one a lot more than is strictly necessary.
In French I like everything in the future simple tense. You get an extra R. (Il arrive --> Il arrivera.) Having an excuse to make that R sound is the whole reason I ever wanted to study French. Specific words, though? Maybe just "puis" (then), because of how the French use it by just throwing it in somewhere to indicate "and then this other thing happened after that thing" and assuming you can keep up. I like the sound of it so much that I almost never catch what happens after.
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Favourite cartoon, if you have one /corvidology
I have like four! I don't watch cartoons much these days, so this list will be hopelessly retro. I was cartoon-obsessed as a kid, and the shows I watched very much influenced the type of stuff I like now. Occasionally, I'll still listen to the theme songs. Yes, that's weird, but in my defence - they're really catchy? And you try having an ear-worm for 25 years! Hell, I'm going to link to the theme songs. You can't tell me they're not awesome.
First off is G.I Joe (considering how much of my childhood I spent running in a forest with a make-believe shotgun playing at warfare, it's kind of a miracle how I grew up to be this big of an anti-firearms leftie).
Second on my list is Bravestarr. (Ears of the wolf! Speed of the puma! Bravestarr! He's got a horse with his own shotgun! Coolest. Horse. Ever.)
Third is She-Ra & He-Man. (I've seen a few episodes of this new She-Ra, and I approve of the effort to bring her to the new generation. She-Ra is freaking cool. But, man. My She-Ra was hot. I realize that that's not a healthy body image for young girls, but for me it was a big part of the appeal. And the fact that she could bench press a boulder and had a flying horse.)
Fourth is Jem & the Holograms. (I used to call it the "paper hair Barbie show" because of the way their hair was drawn. The other shows I watched for the plot, I think? This one I watched because SO MUCH COLOUR.)
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If you could revive a cancelled/finished tv shows, what would it be? /falena
Is Firefly too obvious an answer? Sense8 is definitely up there as well, and The Get Down. I'll also be forever miffed that Angel ended the way that it did. Oh, man. This list could go on for a while, now that I think about it. I'll leave it at that not to bum everybody out at the thought of all the great TV we never got to see.
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I'm down to just one job now for the next eight weeks, and it is liberating. At the same time, exams are starting up at school, so next week will largely be about me trying to figure out how this school uses the Abitti program, and the week after will be about correcting 92 exams and essays. I'm less than excited, even though it'll be a relief to have this period over and done with.
Anyway, January journal! More catch up!
Your favourite words in the languages you speak /
falena In Swedish, it's mössa. In English, I suppose it's called a beanie or something. It's the word for the soft hat you wear to keep your ears warm. It's got a soft sound, and the act of putting on your mössa when it's cold is really nice. I also really love the word favvo which is just an infantile way of saying favorit, i.e "favourite." I will admit that it's a little obnoxious, but I use it all the time. And I also really love the uniquely Finland-Swedish mash-up natupaita. (Standard Swedish is nattskjorta and standard Finnish is yöpaita. It means nightgown/whatever you wear to bed.)
Finland-Swedish has a lot of words or expressions that are specific to Finland and that make zero sense to standard Swedish speakers. Some are easy for monolingual Finns to understand, and some are so area-specific that even other Finland-Swedes can't figure it out.
In English, I like all pronunciations of fire. I love that RP English turns it into a triphthong especially. Faa-ee-aa! Oh, and the expression "to not know one's ass from one's elbow." Genius.
In Finnish, it's a toss-up between a few things. I really like the words where we pile on suffixes to achieve a really specific meaning for something. Or suffixes in general. I love Finnish suffixes. For example, we add variations of the suffix -tta to nouns or verbs to indicate a lack of the noun/verb. Nukkua (to sleep) --> nukkumatta (without sleeping). I like adding it to names to make silly, but technically grammatical, sentences like "Olet Annatta!" to say "You don't have Anna with you!/You are without Anna!"
I also like words that are specific to rural Finland, or my own village in particular. It's not about the sound as much as it's a way for me to indicate my rural identity while living in a city. I don't know why I feel I need to do this, but I do. So, I love words like saijua for "coffee", when the standard Finnish is kahvia, and holotna, "very cold" instead of tosi kylmä. Those are words my grandparents gave me. I also like perin instead of the standard todella, tosi for "very." I use that one a lot more than is strictly necessary.
In French I like everything in the future simple tense. You get an extra R. (Il arrive --> Il arrivera.) Having an excuse to make that R sound is the whole reason I ever wanted to study French. Specific words, though? Maybe just "puis" (then), because of how the French use it by just throwing it in somewhere to indicate "and then this other thing happened after that thing" and assuming you can keep up. I like the sound of it so much that I almost never catch what happens after.
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Favourite cartoon, if you have one /
corvidology I have like four! I don't watch cartoons much these days, so this list will be hopelessly retro. I was cartoon-obsessed as a kid, and the shows I watched very much influenced the type of stuff I like now. Occasionally, I'll still listen to the theme songs. Yes, that's weird, but in my defence - they're really catchy? And you try having an ear-worm for 25 years! Hell, I'm going to link to the theme songs. You can't tell me they're not awesome.
First off is G.I Joe (considering how much of my childhood I spent running in a forest with a make-believe shotgun playing at warfare, it's kind of a miracle how I grew up to be this big of an anti-firearms leftie).
Second on my list is Bravestarr. (Ears of the wolf! Speed of the puma! Bravestarr! He's got a horse with his own shotgun! Coolest. Horse. Ever.)
Third is She-Ra & He-Man. (I've seen a few episodes of this new She-Ra, and I approve of the effort to bring her to the new generation. She-Ra is freaking cool. But, man. My She-Ra was hot. I realize that that's not a healthy body image for young girls, but for me it was a big part of the appeal. And the fact that she could bench press a boulder and had a flying horse.)
Fourth is Jem & the Holograms. (I used to call it the "paper hair Barbie show" because of the way their hair was drawn. The other shows I watched for the plot, I think? This one I watched because SO MUCH COLOUR.)
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If you could revive a cancelled/finished tv shows, what would it be? /
falena Is Firefly too obvious an answer? Sense8 is definitely up there as well, and The Get Down. I'll also be forever miffed that Angel ended the way that it did. Oh, man. This list could go on for a while, now that I think about it. I'll leave it at that not to bum everybody out at the thought of all the great TV we never got to see.
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I have the whole series and the Peacekeeper Wars movie...and now that I think of it, I probably should rewatch it. I can't believe it turns 20 this year!
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My favourite cartoon is a love I've acquired as an adult after nephew #3 introduced me to it, Phineas & Ferb. I mean, where else are you going to see a secret agent platypus?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRCT30pDtVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf3mRZ7SHu0
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Mössa is a much better word than the Norwegian lue!
And so many Finish words in this post :D :D I have a dream that will never be realized, to learn Finish, but I have started keeping a list of Finish words and their Norwegian counterparts. Just for fun!
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Why never realized? I mean, sure, if you aim for PERFECT FLUENCY, then yeah, it's hard. But picking up some casual Finnish is surely doable? You ever want some assistance, I'll be happy to help :D
My personal never-ending nonsense project is to try to pick up as much Irish Gaelic as I possibly can. I play with the thought of going on a language course some day. I can't imagine what I'd ever use it for, but it would just be so cool.
Oh, and Latin. If I ever manage to finish my damn Master's, the first thing I'll do is try to get into Uni of Helsinki to study enough Latin to be allowed to teach it in high school. A course like that would have maybe three students, max. But, again. So. Cool.
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I do wish duolingo had Finnish, I do hope they are working on it. I have used briefly used another online source I found. Fow now this is something I do only now and again. I plan to put more focus on it when my studies are all done and I have more time to do things just for fun.
Cool is the word! And it's fun to have something on the side to enjoy even if we won't actually use it for anything special. Hope you reach your dream of teaching Latin one day!