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[Juni Ori]

Aristharus, on Apr 25 2006, 11:57 AM, said:

A certain finnish politician, too.. He was supposed to run for president on the last election, but then he didn't.

Same in Finnish said:

Tietty suomalainen poliitikko, myös... Hänen oletettiin pyrkivän presidentiksi viime vaaleissa, mutta hän ei pyrkinytkään.

Not exact translation, but that's pretty much how one would say. Of course it's not the only way...

[Aristharus]

I'd say "Eräs suomalainen poliitikko", just to avoid confusion.. Although, it might be that my "certain" is the wrong word for it, too.

[Juni Ori]

It can be "eräs" too. It depends more on how you want to say it.

[Juni Ori]

Fine, you asked for it, AJ!

"The saints are crippled
On this sinners? night
Lost are the lambs with no guiding light

The walls come down like thunder
The rocks about to roll
It?s the Arockalypse
Now bare your soul

All we need is lightning
With power and might
Striking down the prophets of false
As the moon is rising
Give us the sign
Now let us rise up in awe

Rock ?n roll angels bring thyn hard rock hallelujah
Demons and angels all in one have arrived
Rock ?n roll angels bring thyn hard rock hallelujah
In God?s creation supernatural high"

Translate that!   

[Potatoe]

Juni Ori, on Mar 30 2006, 05:25 PM, said:

A. J. Raffles, on Mar 28 2006, 06:47 AM, said:

I'd love to learn a whole bunch of new languages (including Icelandic, Finnish, Russian, Hungarian, Armenian and Ancient Greek, in no particular order), but I highly doubt I'll ever have time for that, which is a bit of a shame.

I was aware of your interest of Finnish, but I can't recall ever hearing the motive. After all, there's only something like 7-8 million people speaking Finnish and it belongs to quite small Fenno-Ugrian language group, as does Hungarian, Estonian and couple of other very small languages also. Same goes with Icelandic: belongs to relatively small sub-group of Germanic languages and it has even less people speaking it. Norwegian, Swedish or Danish would be much more understandable. So... why? And how many speak Armenian?

Minä puhu hyvä suomi, minä mennä tehdä pitsa. Jep Jep.. <.<

[A. J. Raffles]

Uhm, I think I'll give those Lordi-lyrics a pass and skip straight to Potatoe's translation, which doesn't really seem to make much sense either. It appears to be something along the lines of "I speak Finnish well, I'm off to get pizza. Jep Jep..<.<"

[Potatoe]

A. J. Raffles, on May 20 2006, 11:38 PM, said:

Uhm, I think I'll give those Lordi-lyrics a pass and skip straight to Potatoe's translation, which doesn't really seem to make much sense either. It appears to be something along the lines of "I speak Finnish well, I'm off to get pizza. Jep Jep..<.<"

It's "I speak good finnish, I  go make pizza, yup yup"
Oh, and the grammar in that sentence sux balls n stuff..

[A. J. Raffles]

That's what I thought as well. I just didn't want to say anything for fear of hurting your feelings.

[Potatoe]

A. J. Raffles, on May 20 2006, 11:49 PM, said:

That's what I thought as well. I just didn't want to say anything for fear of hurting your feelings.

I posted that as a joke.

[A. J. Raffles]

How would I know? As you can easily tell by looking at my translations, I don't actually speak the language.

Anyway...
"Pyhimysa ovat rampat..."??
Gah, I can't do this tonight. I'm off to bed.

[Juni Ori]

Okay, tomorrow then!

[Juni Ori]

Okay, I decided to take two local newspapers (yesterday's Iltalehti (IL) and Ilta-Sanomat (IS), yesterday's papers in hope that I'm less violating any copyright laws) and take writings from there for AJ to translate. So here we go:

IL page 2 said:

Yleisradio toivoo riittävät resurssit omaavien tilojen omistajien ilmoittautuvan

IL page 5 said:

Poliittinen realismi ottaa minua niin paljon päähän, että löysin itseni liikuttumasta omista puheistani. Enkä ole edes Paavo Väyrynen

IL page 11 said:

Itsenäisyyspäivän vastaanotto linnassa on vuosi vuoden perään ollut koko kansaa kiinnostava pukukavalkadi. Yli miljoona suomalaista istuu sitkeästi ruudun ääressä. Jo etukäteen lehdissä on kerrottu, ketkä ovat saaneet kutsun linnaan, ja keiltä se on jäänyt saamatta.

Linna = Presidentinlinna

IL Lordi Special page 9 said:

"Tämä on parempi kuin jääkiekon MM-kulta!" "Helvetin piti jäätyä ennen kuin Suomi voittaa."

IS Lordi Extra page 14 said:

Rovaniemen päättäjät ilmoittivat eilen palkitsevansa kaupungista kotoisin olevan Mr. Lordin eli Tomi Putaansuun omalla nimikkoaukiolla. Lisääksi Putaansuu saa kaupungilta lahjaksi tontin.

IS page 24 said:

Janne Ahonen joutuu elämään mäessä tuulten ja kiihdytysajoissa sateen oikkujen mukaan.

Okay, there are couple of difficult ones, but you've proven your linguistic geniousity, so we're waiting... And sorry, I just had to take few examples about Lordi, because both newspapers were full of them! And sorry IL and IS, if I in any way violated copyright laws and you have something against it. I'll edit them away immediately, if you wish so!
My e-mail: ori.juni@gmail.com
My native language is Finnish.

[A. J. Raffles]

Violating copyright? Why? You're quoting short extracts from newspapers which as far as I can tell are both published online as well. I you want to make absolutely sure, you might include the links, but I doubt that's necessary, really...

[Juni Ori]

Just being careful and polite as I really don't know for sure...

[Potatoe]

Juni Ori, on May 23 2006, 11:20 AM, said:

Just being careful and polite as I really don't know for sure...

Yeah. Finnish copyright laws are a bit bogus.