Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language?
DKKHGGGj@sopuli.xyz 14 hours agoMe as a native finnish speaker making every english speaker in a meeting unsure of my meanig
Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language?
DKKHGGGj@sopuli.xyz 14 hours agoMe as a native finnish speaker making every english speaker in a meeting unsure of my meanig
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Can you explain please?
jbrains@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Finnish people are stereotyped to sound monotone, enunciate clearly, speak directly, and tersely. This makes them seem unfriendly.
And then they expect you to stay 3 m away from them at all times, which intensifies their seeming unfriendliness.
At least these are the memes.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 13 hours ago
Knew there was a reason I liked Finns…
jbrains@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
When we go to a hotel, we prefer the Finnish level of service: make everything work and otherwise leave us alone.
Yaky@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
Sounds pretty similar to US stereotypes towards Eastern Europeans, who are “always grumpy” and “rude”.
DKKHGGGj@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
As others explained, finnish is pretty flat and that carries to the other languages I speak. To english mostly, I refuse to speak swedish
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
From what I’ve learned from memes is that there is “enmity” between Swedes and Finns, am I correct?