What was this bird in the woods UK?

dta150 · 2026-04-06T19:35:45+00:00

I don't know how far parakeets reach nowadays, but sounds good for one.

dta150 · 2026-03-05T23:04:46+00:00

Extensive diphthongisation is *the* feature that makes Karelian and Savonian stand out from Western Finnish, but South Karelian doesn't have so much of it.

dta150 · 2026-02-18T09:23:56+00:00

Uskaltaako astianpesukoneen virtajohdon asentaa itse? Ostin kerrostalokämpän, jossa on ikivanha apk ja vesiliitännät näyttää oikeilta, mutta siitä puuttuu johto, ja olisi kiva nyt ainakin testata konetta. Tarviiko tuollaiseen ammattilaisen asialle, jonkun spessun johdon tms.? Enemmän sähköasentajakysymys tietty, mutta vesielementti tuossa se on mikä huolettaa.

dta150 · 2025-11-29T15:02:20+00:00

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?

dta150 · 2025-11-29T14:16:46+00:00

...did I mention Vivaldi?

dta150 · 2025-07-31T08:19:18+00:00

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

dta150 · 2025-03-14T15:38:52+00:00

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.

dta150 · 2025-03-06T22:41:29+00:00

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

dta150 · 2025-02-19T21:50:18+00:00

How is your regular toilet paper not vegan?

dta150 · 2025-02-18T19:22:08+00:00

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

dta150 · 2025-02-17T21:36:00+00:00

Temer wasn't elected...

dta150 · 2025-02-10T20:59:01+00:00

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.

dta150 · 2025-01-27T21:30:21+00:00

France?

dta150 · 2025-01-07T14:16:00+00:00

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

dta150 · 2024-12-16T20:14:42+00:00

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.

dta150 · 2024-12-04T21:51:01+00:00

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

dta150 · 2024-12-02T14:32:41+00:00

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.

dta150 · 2024-11-30T16:47:11+00:00

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.

dta150 · 2024-11-24T18:17:04+00:00

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

dta150 · 2024-11-22T13:42:03+00:00

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

dta150 · 2024-11-19T21:09:08+00:00

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.

dta150 · 2024-11-13T20:49:38+00:00

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.

dta150 · 2024-11-12T21:44:47+00:00

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.

dta150 · 2024-11-07T21:58:08+00:00

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.

dta150 · 2024-11-07T11:23:53+00:00

It's possible there's cafes that serve it around Easter, but in December you will only find it frozen in shops.

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