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Nah, doesn't work like that in practical (spoken) Finnish. Someone born in 1975 would be "seiskafemma", someone in 1984 "kasinelonen" and so forth. Even spellin
by wilihybrid 4y ago
Nah, doesn't work like that in practical (spoken) Finnish. Someone born in 1975 would be "seiskafemma", someone in 1984 "kasinelonen" and so forth. Even spelling the whole word out would be along the lines of "ysitoista seitenviis" (19 75). No-one would ever say "yksi-tuhat..."
- rendall 4y agoWhat dialect is that wilihybrid? "seiskafemma"?
- CRConrad 4y agoStadin slangi? Well, not the near-undecipherable real deal[1] Stadin Slangi, but just ordinary contemporary colloquial, I guess. ___ [1]: Near-half (old-fashioned) Swedish, near-half (old-fashioned) Russian, a tiny smattering of (old-fashioned) Finnish.
- rendall 4y agoHmm. I mean, "femma" is like a "fiver". "Seiska" is the nickname for the tabloid "7" (that became its official name). "Seiskafemma" though? Seems weird.
- CRConrad 4y agoYeah, "femma" is literally "fiver" in Swedish. (Or "fifth"; "Jag kom femma i loppet" means "I placed fifth in the race".) And "seiska" is the colloquial pronunciation of seven in general, not just that publication. So "seiskafemma" is just the digita concatenated; "seven-five" in stead of "seventy-five". Doesn't feel all that weird to me. For one thing, other languages do that too. And for another, it's all the "-kymmenen" bits that are too long to pronounce, so leaving them out (when that doesn't introduce confusion, of course) seems eminently sensible. Really not weird at all.
- CRConrad 4y ago> No-one would ever say "yksi-tuhat..." They do on the TV (and, I assume, radio) news. But even they sometimes stumble over them, which leads me to further assume that the announcers only speak that way on the air.