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[personal profile] yvannairie
It's always amusing to hear that someone American thinks me being very Loudly Finnish is annoying and self-involved

:D

Yeah it's less cute when it's done at you, ain't it?

Date: 6/5/19 10:52 (UTC)
cimorene: cartoony drawing of a woman's head in profile giving dubious side-eye (Default)
From: [personal profile] cimorene
What???

Are you talking like, a bullhorn and everything draped in Finnish flags? Are you dropping it into conversation every other sentence like a mansplainer who went to Harvard????

Actually the idea of being loudly Finnish is inherently kind of funny...

Date: 6/5/19 14:30 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cimorene
And yet I bet you still don't talk about it as much as plenty of monolingual midwesterners who know nothing about other cultures to compare it to! I have like a learned intense and hostile suspicion response to American flag stickers.

Plus Finnish is always a fantastic linguistic example because it's a rare language family with a unique and cool grammar and a phonetic system in which stuff almost always sounds cool, so what's not to like?

Date: 6/5/19 15:11 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cimorene
Yeah, there are some highly unusual features of Finnish culture relating to Finland's geopolitical position between the so-called East and West. Even just the legal status of Swedish is pretty unusual (although there are plenty of countries with multiple official languages in the world of course, but the scale of the minority and the types of protections on the minority language - I took a course on it and read a really fascinating textbook that compares it in a million tiny ways to French in Canada).

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