Revolting Uniting

[DLFReporter]

Perkeleen perkeleen helvetin perse.

Funny thing, my translator gives me this as a translation: "The Devil the Devil damn it lost."

[Kelmola]

Perkeleen perkeleen helvetin perse.

Funny thing, my translator gives me this as a translation: "The Devil the Devil damn it lost."

Literally, it is "Devil's Devil's hell's ass".

Also, the word TheTa learned (I assume it begins with "v") is really useful. It can be used for the c- and f-words, also in a less literal sense as a replacement for the d-word, h-word, and s-word, and it can change the modus of any verb into "aggresive". Also, it can be used as a sort of filler word like Native American "ugh" (which itself is a mistranslitteration of an actually meaningful word, oh well). Also, the youth use it as a sort of informal greeting, both when meeting and when parting.

EDIT: The v-word has almost as many uses in spoken Finnish as "bitte" has in German. So you can use it instead of "Yes, please", "Thank you", "Here you are", "I'm sorry", "Excuse me", "I did not understand", etc., or at least the youth seem to use it this way. Also, it can be added as a genitive-looking adjective to any noun.

[Flippy Warbear]

You could make the same kind of educational film about the usage of the word "vittu" like there is about the word "fuck".

[Tedacious]

I thought vittu meant pussy?

"Voi vittu" we used to say when we were real young. Thinking that meant "butter-pussy", not that we had any idea if it did, just rumour around schools.

[Fuchs]

I still wonder how people understand each other while speaking Finnish. It's not the gibberish like a cat walked over the keyboard kind of spelling, it's more the words with a thousands meanings. Vittu, perkele. How do you do it?

[th_battleaxe]

The Italian way, gesticulation... Wild guess

[THeTA0123]

Perkeleen perkeleen helvetin perse.

Funny thing, my translator gives me this as a translation: "The Devil the Devil damn it lost."

One does not simply translate finnish into english

Lesson number 1 i learned from ciupita

[:| Hi]

We were out of spoons in the house, then I remembered I had this baby.



East German NVA spoon, presumably manufactured in 1963. The lucky charms taste good too.

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

how does a house run out of spoons

[:| Hi]

They are all dirty and I am too lazy to wash one.

[VonMudra]

it takes like, 5 seconds to wash a spoon with a sponge.

[Thorondor123]

But like 5 years to get it back from the magpies!

[Kelmola]

I thought vittu meant pussy?

"Voi vittu" we used to say when we were real young. Thinking that meant "butter-pussy", not that we had any idea if it did, just rumour around schools.

Yes, "vittu" means pussy. Actually, in Old Finnish, there used to be distinct words for the genitalia of a small girl, a girl who had had her period, a girl who had become a woman, a woman who had given birth, and post-menopausal (or infertile) woman; IIRC "vittu" means the one who had not yet given birth but was no longer a virgin.

"Voi vittu" is idiomatically translated as "Oh fuck": "voi" is in this case a lament and not the foodstuff. Even if you did not know the context (which is of course helpful), "butter pussy" would be spelled as "voivittu" (compound words are written together in Finnish - yes, this means that you can make completely nonsensical but grammatically correct compound nouns infinitely long even in their nominative case).

[THeTA0123]

aaah so it is not the same as the "C" word in english?

[Thorondor123]

aaah so it is not the same as the "C" word in english?

Means the same thing and is considered to the the most vulgar swear word in Finnish. So in that sense it's closer to the c-word than the f-word.