Ho ho! Just Perfect.. Conan must see that!

I note a conspicous absence of the archetypal “perkele” in the Letterman clip. Might even Finnish swearwords be censored by CBS?

That woman’s accept was quite thick, think she was a native Finn?

Whe was probably a fifth-generation immigrant from Wisconsin.

http://all.snapsoid.com/~president_bush_gets_a-new-tie

There were just some little things in the pronunciation that told she is not native.

At least “sää saat mua oksentamaan” should be “sää saat mut oksentamaan”. (=You make me vomit)

Absence of perkele (sounds like a death metal band name) was quite unfinnish.

I love the way they put the names of Conan and Halonen on the photos, to make sure the Ilta-Sanomat readers know who is who.

I think its pretty sad that this is front-page material. I would maybe have given this one column at page 16 (because, you know, it is amusing).

“There were just some little things in the pronunciation that told she is not native.”

She probably is a native, but my guess would be that she’s lived in the USA with an American significant other for at least one third of her life.

By the way, the conspicuous absence of “perkele” and the V-word suggests that the parameters of the content of the Finnish language abuse was also set by the CBS censors.

She’s native, because she places “latent” glottal stops (remnants of now-disappeared consonants) correctly and does the corresponding sandhi right: “ala vetää” is structurally /ala? vetää/ and pronounced /alavvetää/. She’s forgotten how to swear, though.

I think its pretty sad that this is front-page material. I would maybe have given this one column at page 16 (because, you know, it is amusing).

This isn’t by any stretch of the imagination the saddest thing to grace the front page of Iltasanomat or Iltalehti. Both of those papers are worthless rags dedicated to useless scare mongering and instanews of no value.