For a while I had multiple language keyboards on my phone, at some point, I forget why, I had a Dutch keyboard, and sometimes I’d fat finger the button that switched languages, and would end up typing out English on the Dutch keyboard and get really confused by it insisting I had spelled half the words wrong, it felt like my spell check was gas lighting me.
Because it can be read as “asian-tuntija” and to me “tuntija” sounds a bit like “tortilla” except “tun” in my language meaning “tuna” so it becomes “asian tuna-tilla”.
So what I’m saying is just that it’s the spelling that looks a bit weird to me.
I actually like it how “expert” becomes “Thing-Knower” in Finnish. Finnish language has such a beautiful system of deriving words and new terms. I actually find it really disappointing to look at Estonian when they obviously just nab a lot of words from Latin/Greek roots. I mean, really, Disco Elysium? “Kontseptsualisatioon”? I mean, you could translate conceputalisation into Finnish as “konseptualisointi”, but why the hell would you use a weird Latinate shit when we have a perfectly useful Fenno-Ugric term already in use, “käsitteellistäminen”?
(“Käsitteellistäminen” comes from “käsi” (hand) → “käsite” (concept; something to be grasped, to be held in hand, I guess figuratively speaking?) → “käsitteellistää” (to make a concept, to conceptualise) → “käsitteellistäminen” (noun form of the verb, conceptualisation).
“Asiantuntija” means expert? Finnish is so strange, and that’s coming from a Dane.
Language is wild, every time I see Dutch it takes a few seconds to process what I’m actually reading
For a while I had multiple language keyboards on my phone, at some point, I forget why, I had a Dutch keyboard, and sometimes I’d fat finger the button that switched languages, and would end up typing out English on the Dutch keyboard and get really confused by it insisting I had spelled half the words wrong, it felt like my spell check was gas lighting me.
It could also be directly translated to basically “thingknower” which is fun.
How is asiantuntija any weirder than “expert”?
Because it can be read as “asian-tuntija” and to me “tuntija” sounds a bit like “tortilla” except “tun” in my language meaning “tuna” so it becomes “asian tuna-tilla”.
So what I’m saying is just that it’s the spelling that looks a bit weird to me.
Expert starts with ex which is almost like sex which is seksi and pert reminds me of Pertti so that’s weird to me.
I’m just joking around but yeah it’s all about what we’re used to
Oh yeah, we playfully use the word “sexpert” regularly here, so I get it :)
Reminds me of “expertsexchange.com” that was a domain for Experts Exchange, even though I’d guess it’s not what most thought it was at first read lol
and expert (ekspertti) could jokingly mean someone who used to be Pertti (finnish name)
I actually like it how “expert” becomes “Thing-Knower” in Finnish. Finnish language has such a beautiful system of deriving words and new terms. I actually find it really disappointing to look at Estonian when they obviously just nab a lot of words from Latin/Greek roots. I mean, really, Disco Elysium? “Kontseptsualisatioon”? I mean, you could translate conceputalisation into Finnish as “konseptualisointi”, but why the hell would you use a weird Latinate shit when we have a perfectly useful Fenno-Ugric term already in use, “käsitteellistäminen”?
(“Käsitteellistäminen” comes from “käsi” (hand) → “käsite” (concept; something to be grasped, to be held in hand, I guess figuratively speaking?) → “käsitteellistää” (to make a concept, to conceptualise) → “käsitteellistäminen” (noun form of the verb, conceptualisation).