“All of these countries are ethnostates! Why can’t we have one? Because we’re Jewish?”

“Because genocide.”

“Point being?”

https://fxtwitter.com/jewishwonk/status/1788543985729884390?s=46

  • huf [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    it's a hard language for scandinavians to learn, since finnish is entirely unrelated to swedish, danish, norwegian, etc.

    • thetaT [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      it's closer to russian than it is to any of the Scandinavian languages

      • huf [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        lol no it isnt, it's exactly as far from russian as it is from the scandinavian languages. cos you see, finnish is an uralic language, while scandinavian languages and russian are indoeuropean.

        • thetaT [none/use name]
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          7 months ago

          IIRC a lot of words are borrowed from russian, like niet which comes from the russian nyet, no? maybe my sources are just bad

          • huf [he/him]
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            7 months ago

            sure, and a lot are borrowed from swedish, low german, who knows what. i dont think their word for "no" is borrowed though, nor does it seem to be "niet".