I'm going to tell you a very darling dialect word and about Finnish buses.
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I'm going to tell you a very darling dialect word and about Finnish buses.
When Finns wait at a bus stop, there's this code where everyone is pretty far set apart, and trying to mind their own business. (Used to be staring into the void, now it's bothering phones and listening to music or books etc.) But this leads to there being a need and herd instinct for one person, usually the one closest to the direction the bus is coming in from to spot it first, or farthest for best viewing angle, to keep an eye on the arrival of the bus. The bus schedules are very seldom quite accurate and it would be bad to miss one if distracted.
If they're of a specific tribe of Finns, namely tamperelainen from Tampere, they'll vocally inform everyone of the bus coming instead of doing a sullen loud shuffle to alert everyone or a jaunty "noni" like in some regions father up north.The phrase "now it is coming" is "nyt se tulee" but when you say it in that dialect, it becomes "nysse tulee."
And thus Nysse is bus because Nysse is what is coming. -
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I'm going to tell you a very darling dialect word and about Finnish buses.
When Finns wait at a bus stop, there's this code where everyone is pretty far set apart, and trying to mind their own business. (Used to be staring into the void, now it's bothering phones and listening to music or books etc.) But this leads to there being a need and herd instinct for one person, usually the one closest to the direction the bus is coming in from to spot it first, or farthest for best viewing angle, to keep an eye on the arrival of the bus. The bus schedules are very seldom quite accurate and it would be bad to miss one if distracted.
If they're of a specific tribe of Finns, namely tamperelainen from Tampere, they'll vocally inform everyone of the bus coming instead of doing a sullen loud shuffle to alert everyone or a jaunty "noni" like in some regions father up north.The phrase "now it is coming" is "nyt se tulee" but when you say it in that dialect, it becomes "nysse tulee."
And thus Nysse is bus because Nysse is what is coming.@sinituulia Speaking of language today, @CiaraNi
