dactylotheca

joined 1 year ago
[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 1 points 1 year ago

Could use it as an excuse for another coup attempt

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Heh, I get it. Let's see what happens – I'd certainly enjoy the chaos that Trump dropping out would cause. Republicans would go fucking nuts

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

American presidential candidates are fuckin wild.

"Hmm, should I vote for the demented rapist felon reality TV star who wants to install a fascist dictatorship, or the guy with a freezer full of roadkill who had part of his brain eaten by worms and thinks vaccines are worse than Hitler?"

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 69 points 1 year ago (10 children)

His dropping out seems very unlikely. Not impossible by any means, but unlikely. He doesn't seem like the person who's capable of admitting defeat, especially considering his legal troubles

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 5 points 1 year ago

it has been bought by an Orban linked company las year.

Fucking what. Noooo, damnit

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 24 points 1 year ago

Truly a master strategist

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Stalin was nominated twice

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 4 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Speaking of parasites, you may want to have that brain slug removed.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 14 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I doubt they spent all that much money murking whatshisname. The R&D money goes to the parasites known as executives and shareholders

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 50 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Conservatives don't give a shit about what's actually getting criticized – if they're told that they need to think Walz is bad, then anything he does can be used as an example of him being a "villain". Could be fucking "he donates to charity" and they'd find a way to doublethink that into being a bad thing

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fucking Russian psychos use the majority of their missiles on civilian targets and now suddenly Putin has a problem with (alleged! I frankly don't believe it for one second) “indiscriminate shooting from various types of weapons, including missiles, at civilian buildings, residential buildings, and ambulances.”

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 1 points 1 year ago

English is enough of a universal language nowadays that it's understandable that it might not be immediately obvious how language and culture / identity can be linked. Any sort of written, spoken, etc. cultural artifact is tied to a language, and while translation is absolutely a thing (duh), you do lose nuance even when translating to a closely related language.

With Finnish it's not really the vocabulary I'd like to see preserved, but grammar. English grammar is relatively lightweight even compared to most Indo-European languages, and Finnish and Uralic languages in general are on the other end of that spectrum. There's a lot of cool grammatical features, which, while not super duper necessary, add a lot of nuance that can take multiple words or even nearly a full sentence to replace. Where English and most other Indo-European languages usually need a completely new word to express new concepts, we can often just express the same thing by using our frankly ridiculously complex grammar (for a non-native learner!).

As an example, let's take the verb for "to look", katsoa. If you were to use a verb aspect called the momentane – which indicates that something was sudden and short-lived – to form the verb katsahtaa, you'd have something that's close to the English word "glance". Then you could use eg. the frequentative aspect – which (quoting Wikipedia here) expresses "repetitive action, but may also represent leisurely and/or prolonged activity, or activity that is not done in a particularly determined attempt to reach a goal" – to give you katsahdella and you'd have a verb that translates to something approximately like "to glance around aimlessly".

This sort of grammatical minutia has been getting rarer for centuries now, but the speed has definitely accelerated over the past ~40 years mainly due to more. In many ways it's unavoidable, but I still think it's a bit sad.

Oh and to answer your question about word origins, there's a free online Finnish etymological dictionary, and eg. Wiktionary has an etymology section.

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