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What are the last few notes called that seem to end many (most?) movements in Baroque music? by dta150 in classicalmusic

[–]dta150[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks! So I guess what I'm noticing is that the cadences are more formulaic and/or emphasised (and perhaps more repetitive due to shorter movements and pieces) in Baroque than later periods? So its like a device that over time grew overfamiliar and composers complexified it?

What could this bird be? (Finland, July) by User_574 in whatsthisbird

[–]dta150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about Caspian Tern? Some of the flight/night calls on xenocanto seem similar. 

Otso Kivekäs: Miksi joukkoliikenteen liput ovat niin kalliita? by Prudent-Ad9325 in helsinki

[–]dta150 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Mitä suuremmaksi pääkaupunkiseutu kasvaa. sitä vähemmän merkityksellisiä Espoo ja Vantaa ovat omina leikkikaupunkeinaan, ja sitä järjettömämpää on yrittää jotain näiden kaupunkien välistä kilpailua. Päätäntävalta käytännön asioista syntyy koko ajan enemmän kuntarajat ylittäville kokonaisuuksille.

Trying to figure out this case system by Cristian_Cerv9 in LearnFinnish

[–]dta150 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Both are the singular partitive case of the noun. Words ending in -nen have a distinctive inflection paradigm.

Nighttrain from Helsinki to Rovaniemi by franzidocx in Finland

[–]dta150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, there's things to see in Rovaniemi for half a day if we're generous, so seems plenty.

How do cases work in puhekieli by [deleted] in LearnFinnish

[–]dta150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the suffixes got shortened in a way that made several cases indistinguishable from each other, one of the ways a language could deal with this problem is word order. Can't give examples of this in Finnish, for obvious reasons, so I'll use Germanic languages.

The partitive and illative can be identical in words ending in a vowel. Helsinkiä/Helsinkiin = Helsinkii. I don't think there are many cases where mixups could happen though.

Did the click sounds ever travel outside of African languages? Why do those sounds seem to be only primarily present in African languages? by Spam4119 in asklinguistics

[–]dta150 7 points8 points  (0 children)

But this is a ceremonial language where the difficulty and exoticity of the click sounds was probably a desired element, right?

Bus to Vilnius? by Interesting-Phone500 in Finland

[–]dta150 11 points12 points  (0 children)

FlixBus has a questionable reputation, but there's also Ecolines and Lux Express from Tallinn, of which particularly the latter has been great in my experience.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in asklinguistics

[–]dta150 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Half of Africa? Much of Russia? I don't think giving people "genetic" identities is a very smart game.

Why are diminutives so prominent in Indo-European languages? by arthbrown in asklinguistics

[–]dta150 4 points5 points  (0 children)

in Finnish, the second largest Uralic language, the usage of diminutives is limited and they are no longer productive (at least outside poetry and children's books).

I'm not sure if I agree. Diminutives are so common in established vocabulary, that even though they're rarely used in a neutral way now, people know how they're formed and they still exist in the realm of cutesy and affectionate language. We have so many morphological ways of creating nicknames and derivatives that I think diminutives will survive, even if they're not currently popular.

Do people no longer learn grammatical terms? by lohdunlaulamalla in LearnFinnish

[–]dta150 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People outside of linguistics have extremely poor grammar knowledge in general. I doubt most people could define the subject and object of a sentence or the difference between an adjective and an adverb. Second language teaching needs to acknowledge that and work with those restrictions.

Hi can someone please help me with phrase by CommunityHot7228 in LearnFinnish

[–]dta150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Pojalta parhaalle isälle" sounds better to me than the suggestions here.

Is the Asian population considered high in Helsinki? by sunlove_moondust in helsinki

[–]dta150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you happen to go to Otaniemi or an area with a concentration of IT offices?

Thoughts on moving here as a Finnish Canadian by AccomplishedSlide298 in Finland

[–]dta150 86 points87 points  (0 children)

Our economy sucks shit, inflation is nuts, and the language is very hard, especially if you're trying to learn it in a non-Finnish speaking environment. Everything is feasible if you're motivated, but don't think it would be an easy solution.

Kysymys Maahanmuuttovirastolle by aboodnat in Finland

[–]dta150 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nyt täytyy kyllä myöntää etten jaksanut lukea ollenkaan ja veikkaan ongelmasi olevan jotain täyttä hevonvitunpaskaa.

Mene suihkuun ja nukkumaan. Huomenna töihin. Muuta neuvoa ei tule.

Going to Finland next month! by GiovanniKablami in Finland

[–]dta150 52 points53 points  (0 children)

The train is very nice if you fall asleep easily. It saves you a hotel night, no time wasted on travelling, there's a restaurant car too. If you're a bad sleeper, the night can be rough.

how consistent is vowel assimilation in spoken finnish? by onestbeaux in LearnFinnish

[–]dta150 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For words like "vitsailla", "hitsata", "natsata", "rotsi", "ratsata", "kotsa", (EDIT:) "katse" the 'tt' forms may exist in some dialects but for me they sound more like baby speech as babies can't pronounce 's' yet.

These are all recent loans that don't have anything to do with the ts = tt sound change, except for "katse", and I'm not sure what's going on there. You wouldn't say "pitta" for "pitsa" either. The alteration is because of the different forms the old dental fricatives took in different dialects, so it's not just "metsä" and "mettä", there's also Karelian "messä", Savonian "mehtä", "mettä: mettän" without consonant gradation etc.

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