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Yes, you can detect Finglish working its way in. Finnish overloads verbs with multiple semantics more than English does, and it sets off the Faulty English Dete
by euroderf 2y ago
Yes, you can detect Finglish working its way in. Finnish overloads verbs with multiple semantics more than English does, and it sets off the Faulty English Detector.
- stevekemp 2y agoMostly, when he's tired or distracted, I hear questions like "Where the cat is?" instead of "Where is the cat?", or "What the clock is?" rather than "What is the time?" I can see where both of those come from, but 95% of the time he asks questions "properly". I realized recently it has been years since he got a persons gender wrong - that was a hard one for him to learn, as with all Finnish people, but it seems to have finally sunk in.
- euroderf 2y agoSome errors in English come straight from Finnish, and only sheer quantity of exposure can overcome them I guess. And consider one of the more subtle English constructions - when to use "so" or "such" with an adjective or adverb. This might be the most common error I see from Finns, and again, perhaps only sheer exposure - esp. written English - might cure it.