Finnish speaking comrades! Lend me an example of your favourite and possibly most incomprehensible bit of local dialect and its translation! Just for funsies!
Example and suggestion of form:
"Alakkonää?" which is transformed by dialect from "Alkaisitko sinä minua?" and meaning: "Would you please cordially agree to play with me right now or at a later time, perhaps today after school?"
@sinituulia Rauma dialect classics:
"San snää mnuu snuuks ko snuuks mnääki snuu sano." = "Sano sinä minua sinuksi koska sinuksi minäkin sinua sanon." = The speaker asks to address with the informal T-form instead of addressing formally.
"Kat ko kat kara rapui!" = "Katso kun kissa juoksee tikkailla!" = Look at the cat running on ladders!
@tarmot The absolute mad cackle I let out. It looks like nonsense written down and then you say it out loud and it makes sense! Language!
Ah, what a beautiful dialect, Rauma.
@tarmot Oh, also:
"Kato ku katti ravvaa rappuja!" is how we'd say the latter sentence here.
There's enough similarities for it to be legible to me at least, I'm a bit worried for the sanity of any novice Finnish learners though...
@tarmot With how much time everyone spends listening to and talking to Finns from all over, the most strongest and unique forms of dialects are probably going to become a sort of hobbyist or academic passion...
Sure, I've talked to old people speaking in the Thickest possible dialects and can somewhat parse it, but would be unable to naturally reproduce any of it.
Pour one out for little old grandads and grandmas chattering incomprehensibly fast using words we can only dream of 😭
@sinituulia @tarmot Raput = ladder, not stairs?
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@kallekn @tarmot Raput is technically more stairs to me, and rappu is of course the stairway connecting the apartments in a tall-rise...
But it would be perfectly correct to say that the cat is running up the stairs, because it's funnier to call a ladder stairs because cats are very small? I assumed that was what was happening here!
My grandmother might have said "Katho ku killi ravhaa tikhailla!" or something similar, using the tikkaat for ladder. I don't actually know when you add in the extra H in a word and when not!
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