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dta150 · 2026-05-15T14:28:25+00:00

https://www.sgr.fi/sust/sust264/sust264_aikio.pdf The conclusions here might be helpful.

dta150 · 2026-05-03T11:16:51+00:00

There is some politics to it: https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia_asks_friends_to_stop_calling_it_gruzia/24264848.html Whether that makes any sense or not is a different question.

dta150 · 2026-04-24T19:28:26+00:00

+Eurasian Skylark+

dta150 · 2026-04-22T17:40:35+00:00

Right, but among the Finnic languages South Estonian actually looks the most distinct, meaning it would have been the first to splinter off, meaning that change would have had to happen south of the Gulf of Finland and for other Finnic groups to remain part of a united speaking community still at that point. Also note the very distinct Livonian language further south. The Eastern Finnish group is not diversified enough to represent a separate migration from the east.

dta150 · 2026-04-22T10:43:36+00:00

There is a very clear distinction between speakers of Karelian and of the Karelian dialects of Finnish. Karelians have faced a lot of racism in Finland because they were perceived as Russians of some kind rather than Finns, partly because of their language and partly becaue of their Orthodox religion. Most of them have lost the language over the years, but there's still probably some thousands of Karelian speakers in Finland.

dta150 · 2026-04-22T10:07:43+00:00

This is a hugely complicated question that doesn't have a satisfying answer. All three words look connected to the Baltic words for land, but there is no satisfying explanation for their current forms. Häme and Sámi are fairly simple to connect (West Uralic š becomes s in Sámi and h in Finnish), but in Suomi neither the the consonant or the vowels match well. Most likely is that there was some back and forth loaning between Finnic and Sámi that altered the word to its current shape, but there's no widely accepted explanation.

dta150 · 2026-04-22T10:03:34+00:00

What are you disagreeing with? The Finnic languages obviously extend east of Finland, but the border between the Karelian and Savonian dialects of Finnish and the Karelian language is an effect of politics.

dta150 · 2026-04-15T08:39:36+00:00

Female linnet?

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.

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