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14.10.2005

More Finland and American late night talk shows

Tags: Uncategorized — Author: Phil @ 1:06 pm

Thanks to everyone who sent me this link – David Letterman did a short piece about Finland swear words. It’s great…

http://siirappi.com/~pasjohol/letterman.wmv

12 Comments »

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

    Comment by Aziz — Fri, Oct 14th, 2005 @ 1:48 pm

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

    Comment by Tomi — Fri, Oct 14th, 2005 @ 2:25 pm

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

    Comment by Phil — Fri, Oct 14th, 2005 @ 2:31 pm

  4. Whe was probably a fifth-generation immigrant from Wisconsin.

    Comment by Tomi — Fri, Oct 14th, 2005 @ 2:35 pm

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

    Comment by Micko from Finland — Fri, Oct 14th, 2005 @ 2:42 pm

  6. 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)

    Comment by Micko from Finland — Fri, Oct 14th, 2005 @ 3:00 pm

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

    Comment by Timo — Fri, Oct 14th, 2005 @ 3:08 pm

  8. 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.

    Comment by Harja Talonen — Fri, Oct 14th, 2005 @ 4:22 pm

  9. 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).

    Comment by Justen — Fri, Oct 14th, 2005 @ 6:34 pm

  10. “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.

    Comment by Kimmo W. — Fri, Oct 14th, 2005 @ 10:59 pm

  11. 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.

    Comment by sepisp — Sun, Oct 16th, 2005 @ 11:46 pm

  12. 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.

    Comment by Arttu — Mon, Oct 17th, 2005 @ 11:25 am

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