Yeah, I mentioned this already in the previous discussion about Finnish in the movies:

http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/10/05/finnish-sounds-alot-like-german/#comments

The latter comment actually was “mika helvetet ol” (“what the phuck was that?”). Also they do seem to have an accent of some sort so I’d bet that they’re not really Finnish. Maybe Estonian.

BTW, Star Trek is far far superior to Star Wars in every way imaginable

I have to agree with you there. I love Star Wars but Star Trek will always be more to me.

Star Trek IV is a great movie.

I think it is Norwegian, actually. Sorry, don’t mean to rain on your parade. Hvilket helvetet det vÃ¥r?

No rain here. Get your ears cleaned. It’s unmistakably “mikä helvetet ol”.

Norwegian, really? Sounded like Finnish to me! But they were whalers after all, would make sense to be Norwegian rather than Finnish.

Americans routinely mix Finns with Norwegians. No surprises there. But it was definitely Finnish what they were saying though.

Star Trek got fucked up and run into the ground over time, mostly thanks to Mr. Berman.

Mind you, I do think Star Trek IV is a good movie.

Finnish with bad accent so the actors were not Finns.

“Wow, actually some real Finnish in a movie!”

Wow, actually I have heard real Finnish before this one in a movie called “Tuntematon Sotilas”.

I watched the clip many times to hear what they are saying:

Lookout yells: “Siellä ne kalat on!”
Captain yells: “Valaita edessä!”
Sailor asks: “Mikä helvetti tuo oli?”

I can’t make anything out of the last short yells, though. I’m quite confident those first lines are in Finnish, but the accent was certainly odd. (I’m native speaker)

oil doesn’t matter. If oil runs out next year, or in the next decade, that will matter less than the rise of competitive sources of energy in the marketplace. Petroleum will go the way of whale oil, which in 1850 was the world’s fifth largest industry, Lovins said. That powerful industry lasted precisely until coal-based oils provided a cheaper alternative to the common lighting fuel. You don’t hear much about whale oil anymore.

“Whalers were astounded,” Lovins said, “when they ran out of customers before they ran out of whales.”

So welcome Finland to the evil empire. We know you did it for oil?????

“I can’t make anything out of the last short yells, though. I’m quite confident those first lines are in Finnish, but the accent was certainly odd. (I’m native speaker)”

At least one of the guys says “perkele”.

I think it’s obviously Finnish.

Lookout yells: “Siellä ne kalat on!”

Lookout says “Siellä ne puhaltaa”.

Phil:
Norwegian, really? Sounded like Finnish to me! But they were whalers after all, would make sense to be Norwegian rather than Finnish.

It’s definitely Finnish. If I recall correctly, the whalers in the movie were Norwegian. Dunno why they made them speak Finnish.
Maybe they had some finns in the crew? One exotic language in place of another hardly matters to most of the viewers.

I think they are speaking Kven.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kven_language

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…And kven is a dialect of Finnish.

If it’s really Kven, they did some serious research for the movie.

That would explain the strange accent.

It would also explain the whale hunting in general. Kvens are Finns, who moved to Norway a long time ago. I have never heard of finnish whale hunters, although it might have been possible at time, when Petsamo was part of Finland.

There is a Finnish speaking community there somewhere around Tromsö. So I am probably wrong.

Another movie to include some random Finnish is the Mystery Science Theater 3K, in which some alien lady comments, “Mozartti on oikein kaunista!” at the dinner table.

Apparently Finnish is something that only aliens can learn?

“Apparently Finnish is something that only aliens can learn?”

There is a good explanation for this. We are relatively close to the north pole, so the aliens in north star direction can watch finnish TV all the time. Transmissions from southern latitudes are either attenuated by long propagation in atmosphere or eclipsed about 12h/earth day for observers closer to the plane of equator.

Re comment #23: I’ve also suspected that. That’s why they fit in so easily among you, no body snatching necessary.

No, it was this universal hit back in 1979:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm1-VsiznAU

Aliens probably are queer and like to dance.

Finnish whalers? Not many of them, mainly because the whales don’t thrive in the Baltic Sea.