We need a signature... ;)

[Heretik]

What about some national costumes Talvi? I'll make a custom one for Estonians with your costumes or something... Just to prove I'm not a troll or anti-estonian.

[Don Brick]

Heretik, that´s an awesome signature. Mad skills!

[The Ripper]

Living in Helsinki doesn't make anyone a "wannabe-Swede", but living in "Stadi" does.

I'll try to draw parallels.
The name of Tallinn derives from Taani linn, which means "Danish town". If I were a wannabe-Dane, like you are a wannabe-Swede, my location would be "Danish town", not Tallinn.

Karl, please.

Stadin slangi. Only country bumpkins say "Hesa".

@ Talvi, if you're looking for some Baltic Finnish themes, why not use our well-recorded and even internationally known mythology and folk poetry?

Kalevala:







Kalevipoeg:







Another option would be to have pictures from the kinship wars, when feelings of Baltic Finnish kinship inspired thousands of volunteers to take up arms in attempts to liberate the Finnic nations.

[Heretik]

..Anyway, maybe a signature with all the Baltic-Finnish flags could be made?

Something like this?

[Heretik]

This is the last time I´ll respond back to you as you´re a fanatic who will not listen to common sense. Stadi is what we often call Helsinki, just ask Riippu for instance, I´m sure he calls it the same. How dare you get in my face and tell me how me and my fellow people should act and what we should say. You have absolutely no idea what you´re talking about. You have once again proven your ignorance and absolute disregard for respect towards others.

I hope some moderator will come and delete this shit. I´m ashamed to even get into a "debate" with Karl the jester.

edit: thanks Riippu. I wonder why Karl doesn´t just as well call me a wannabe-Russian since the slang in Helsinki has been just about as heavily influenced by Russian as it is by Swedish. lol

Shut the fuck up wannabe Swede. Helsinki bleibt Schwedisch!!!

[Talvi]

What about some national costumes Talvi? I'll make a custom one for Estonians with your costumes or something... Just to prove I'm not a troll or anti-estonian.

Ya, I didnt know you were in this group so I was pretty surprised. Id prefer you to stop trolling the Eesti section above all though





For some reason I like this: Weve got some mad hats!


I was trying to find something that all the Baltic Finns have... but I dont know. We dont all have Kalevipoeg or Kalevala...

Although I wanted to ask about this pic:

Whats up with it? Our art teacher in high school said that the ones with the hats in the boat are Estonians... or then the one without the hat... anyway are there any Estonians on the pic or our teacher lied just to make us interested?

[The Ripper]

I was trying to find something that all the Baltic Finns have... but I dont know. We dont all have Kalevipoeg or Kalevala...

I would say we all do have it. Most of the material for the Kalevala was gathered from the Orthodox areas anyway, not from Finland or Estonia, as the zeal of the protestant reformation most likely stifled out the oral traditions in more western areas. This is not to say that folk poetry of the Kalevala metre hasn't been gathered in Finland and Estonia as well.

http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala-mõõt

http://dbgw.finlit.fi/skvr/skvr-tietokanta.php

Although I wanted to ask about this pic:

Whats up with it? Our art teacher in high school said that the ones with the hats in the boat are Estonians... or then the one without the hat... anyway are there any Estonians on the pic or our teacher lied just to make us interested?

Well, the Kalevala does not mention any modern or indeed accurately determinable ethnonyms, so it seems a bit odd to claim that they were specifically Estonian. However, it is quite possible that all of the kalevalaiset / väinöläiset are Estonians and Western Finns, as some have theorized that Väinölä / land of Kaleva was in Western Finland. The "Väinö/ä"-prefix is a recurring toponym in large parts of Baltic Finnish areas. For example Daugava river is known as Väinäjoki.

[Talvi]

I would say we all do have it. Most of the material for the Kalevala was gathered from the Orthodox areas anyway, not from Finland or Estonia, as the zeal of the protestant reformation most likely stifled out the oral traditions in more western areas. This is not to say that folk poetry of the Kalevala metre hasn't been gathered in Finland and Estonia as well.

http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala-mõõt

http://dbgw.finlit.fi/skvr/skvr-tietokanta.php



Well, the Kalevala does not mention any modern or indeed accurately determinable ethnonyms, so it seems a bit odd to claim that they were specifically Estonian. However, it is quite possible that all of the kalevalaiset / väinöläiset are Estonians and Western Finns, as some have theorized that Väinölä / land of Kaleva was in Western Finland. The "Väinö/ä"-prefix is a recurring toponym in large parts of Baltic Finnish areas. For example Daugava river is known as Väinäjoki.

This is odd. Doesnt "väin" or "väinö" or anything have a meaning in Finnish? In Estonian "väin" means a geographical strait/channel... so we do kind of live across the strait from you.

[The Ripper]

This is odd. Doesnt "väin" or "väinö" or anything have a meaning in Finnish? In Estonian "väin" means a geographical strait/channel... so we do kind of live across the strait from you.

Väinä in Finnish means a deeper and wider section of a river, where the water flows slower compared to the rest of the river. Viena is basically the same word (e.g. Vienan Karjala, Vienanjoki, Vienanmeri). Väinö is a Finnish male name.

[Eldritch]

I live in Stadi and use many other Helsinki slang words, even though I hardly speak Swedish proper at all.

Helsinki slang is colloquial Finnish with Swedish, German, Russian, English and even Yiddish superstrata. Speaking it has nothing to do with being a wannabe-Swede.