On se niin väärin!!

[aprilstarchild]

So one of the sites that links to that Helsinki Complaints Choir video on youtube is, of course, finland, and now I know how to say "It's not fair!" in Finnish: "On se niin väärin!!" Which, judging from the video, is pronounced relatively easily: Ohn seh neen vah-rihn. I think they have one of those "flip" R sounds with a D in it, like Japanese does. Or like "Gloria" does when you sing it.

So now I can get that song stuck in my head even more. >_<

And I don't know how to do the dots over the As. I totally keep cutting and pasting it.

I think it's time to change my username and the title of my journal. I've been meaning to do that for ages.

...and done! Woohoo.

Comments

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Think Furi Kuri. It's not really pronounced furi kuri, but it's not fooly cooly either. It's something in-between. My chorus director calls it a "flipped R" as opposed to a rolled R. Or, to quote Wikipedia:

The consonant r is similar to Korean r. To an English speaker's ears, its pronunciation lies somewhere between a flapped t (as in American and Australian English better and ladder), an l and a d.

*pokes around wikipedia some more* Hmmm. Apparently it's more of a rolled R, like in Spanish. It sounds like a flipped R in the song, but they are going fast.