October 2011
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September 2011
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Finnish language - Lexicon →
Verbal suffixes are extremely diverse; several frequentatives and momentanes differentiating causative, volitional-unpredictable and anticausative are found, often combined with each other, often denoting indirection. For example, hypätä “to jump”, hyppiä “to be jumping”, hypeksiä “to be jumping wantonly”, hypäyttää “to make someone jump once”, hyppyyttää “to make someone jump repeatedly” (or...
July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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BBC News - True Finns' nationalism colours Finland... →
sunday:
The True Finns’ manifesto indicates they have much in common with right-wing populist parties elsewhere in Europe. They believe that a low birth rate is not solved by immigration, as that results in problems and foreigners do not fit into Finnish culture. Instead, young women should study less and spend more time giving birth to pure Finnish children.
Because that’s all women are...
March 2011
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February 2011
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I Am Your Finnish Girlfriend: Valentine's Day in... →
We don’t really celebrate Valentine’s Day, as such. In Finland February 14th is called ystävänpäivä (= friendship day), and it is exactly what the name suggests. The day has been celebrated since the 80s and it was imported to support an ingenious ad campaign by some heart association or whatever. Since then it has become the second most popular day to send out cards (after Christmas,...
WatchI recently tried to explain my American friends that in Finland nothing is ever shut down because of snow. This is how. (Also, fuck you, good people of Newark Liberty International Airport maintenance.)
sunday:
Helsinki’s battle with the snow
January 2011
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December 2010
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November 2010
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tulekuisaad:
fuckyeahsuomi:
Finnish: Aja hiljaa sillalla.
English: Drive slowly on the bridge (literally means drive quietly on the bridge
A phrase found often on the Finnish street signs near bridges, this sentence has been voted as the most beautiful sentence in any language by European polls. Pronunciation can be found here.
Does sound rather beautiful. Wasn’t “ema tuli koju” (“mother...
fobay asked: I thought that akvavit was strictly Swedish but your post about glogi made me do some research. Are there major differences between what's made in the different countries?
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And even though they mock my body here Never can...
October 2010
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anniversaire:
Regina- Näinä vuoden mustimpina...
September 2010
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Finland court hears nipple-sucking case →
sunday:
Meanwhile in Finland
A Finnish court is to hear a sexual molestation case against a doctor who says he sucked a patient’s nipple to diagnose a medical problem in accordance with an old midwives’ trick.
ower courts earlier ruled that the doctor had not committed a crime, but the prosecution and the patient appealed against the judgement to the Finnish Supreme Court. The...
August 2010
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July 2010
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Seriously speaking
Finnish government making broadband a legal right is hardly a big deal. The story is on Tumblr radar now and people seem to be in awe.
All it means is that all telecommunicatons companies will be obliged to provide all residents with broadband lines that can run at a minimum 1Mbps speed. So no, it’s not free. Not everyone will have Internet, they will just have the possibility. And I...
Finland makes broadband a 'legal right' →
sunday:
Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen.
From 1 July every Finn will have the right to access to a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection.
Finland has vowed to connect everyone to a 100Mbps connection by 2015.
In the UK the government has promised a minimum connection of at least 2Mbps to all homes by 2012 but has...
June 2010
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