Comments on: More Finland and American late night talk shows

By: Arttu

Arttu — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:25:02 +0000

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.

By: sepisp

sepisp — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:46:01 +0000

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

By: Kimmo W.

Kimmo W. — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:59:27 +0000

“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.

By: Justen

Justen — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:34:29 +0000

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).

By: Harja Talonen

Harja Talonen — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:22:28 +0000

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.

By: Timo

Timo — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:08:14 +0000

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

By: Micko from Finland

Micko from Finland — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:00:54 +0000

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

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

By: Micko from Finland

Micko from Finland — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:42:18 +0000

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

By: Tomi

Tomi — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:35:45 +0000

Whe was probably a fifth-generation immigrant from Wisconsin.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:31:07 +0000

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

By: Tomi

Tomi — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:25:28 +0000

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

By: Aziz

Aziz — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:48:49 +0000

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