You know you have been in Finland too long, when... - 4 views
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Luzi Bergamin on 23 Jun 10How you know you have been to long in xy. The Finnish version. My favorite is 33. You accept that 80°C in a sauna is chilly, but 20°C outside is freaking hot. Quite a lot of them are outdated, esp. about opening hours of shops, and one is definitely missing. Your normal mealtime has shifted to 11am for lunch and 5pm for dinner. But don't worry, it's a really comfy place here, isnt' it Jose??
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Juxi Leitner on 23 Jun 10well somethings you get used to in a year (like salmiakki or koskenkorva) others don't (seriously, lunch at 11?!?!)
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Ma Ru on 23 Jun 10But what stage are you in already, Luzi?
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Luzi Bergamin on 24 Jun 10I would say a 50% Finn. I do have lunch at 11am, every working day, an 80 degrees sauna indeed is just a warm room. But I will never get used to salmiakki (which is just literally eating a cleaning agent!!) and you can imagine that "silence is fun" is not really MY motto...
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LeopoldS on 24 Jun 10True?? 22. You understand why the Finnish language has no future tense. No, I don't think I ever will understand that one... Finns are quite future-oriented at two particular times of the year. On the day after Midsummer (see above), they say "Well, it's all downhill from now on" and prepare feverishly for winter, and similarly after December 21st they perk up and start thinking about Midsummer - ignoring the fact that they still have to get through January, February and March before the place becomes inhabitable again...
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Juxi Leitner on 24 Jun 10... Finnish language has no future tense. That's true
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LeopoldS on 25 Jun 10everything expressed with "tomorrow I go to " or "in one year" etc? what about the distinction between to future events, one conditional on the other?