Inspired by this post in /r/Finland, I'm curious if Karelian is easier than Finnish to the native speakers of Estonian?

Personally, as a Finnish speaker, it is easier than Estonian but the example given on the post is harder to understand than the example given by /u/tempelli, which is a news broadcast in Karelian by the Finnish Broadcasting Company. Reason being probably because the Karelians speaking Karelia sound more Russian than the Finnish one.

I've been looking into Finnish folklore recently, since Finland has its own very unique mythology and legends, and I wondered if there are any fantasy stories based on or revolving around the culture and folklore of Finland. I've not had much luck looking so far.

I don't mind so much about the particular genre or style; I'm much more interested in things like settings, characters, myths, fantasy creatures, or how the folklore is applied, even if it's just a reference to one specific legend that otherwise isn't especially important. They don't just have to be from just Finland either, as getting to look into Estonian, Karelian, or Sámi fantasy fiction for example would be interesting as well.

I have not yet read the Kalevala (though I very much intend to) and while I don't speak Finnish fluently myself, I am learning the language and reading other books in Finnish. If the only books you know of that fit the bill have not been translated into English that's fine for me too, though it naturally helps if they have.

Any recommendations would be most welcome

When the Humans arrived, there was no cheering.

Nobody was bothered too.

More meat for the slaughter.

The emblazoned signs on their suits, red, white, blue, green, yellow, orange… none of it mattered to us.

We all knew their fates.

Death is all that awaits…

On Obraxus Prime.

-Chapter 13, Stories of the Second Intragalactic War

I was a private at Military Base Alpha Kilo, serving on Obraxus Prime, fighting with the coalition forces against the combine. I heard we were receiving a transfer from the wrapped up conflict on Obraxus Minor, which thankfully we had won, so no cut off supplies for us.

Now, those transfers were humans. The humans were regarded as rather ordinary, with no particularly impressive abilities aside from their flexibility.

We all knew their fates, dead in a mass grave, sent home to your family in a casket if you’re lucky. These mammals were different though.

The first I noticed was a rather rudimentary aerial vehicle flying over the base. It was emblazoned with 11 flags on each side, all composed of Red, Blue, and White.

I could barely read Terran, but I found a rough translation of the language to basic on the side when it landed.

“US: 505th Screaming Eagles”

“ENG: 2nd South Staffordshire Regiment”

“CAN: 1st Canadian Parachute Division”

“JPN: 409th Volunteer Airborne Group”

“RoC: 678th Sun-Yat-Sen’s Preachers”

“RF: 789th Karelian Droptroops”

“ANZAC: 475th Dropbears”

“FRN: 897th Revolutionaries”

“SCO: 642nd Highlander Drop Group”

“ABS: African Horns Drop Group”

“CEU: 563rd Armor Dropping Division”

I noticed that air was included a lot in that, which was weird since air battle had been phased out in favor of orbital conflict, which raged above and kept me awake every night.

I was soon after deployed to the second front near the planetary capital, New Lexington.

Harsh enemy resistance opened upon us quickly as we soon reached the West River.

One night, when I lied down on the cold beds of a medical tent from a shot to the leg, I heard an infernal screeching. At first I thought it must be one of the new humans being shipped in, but there wasn’t anybody passing through the shut entrances to the tents.

I looked up through the translucent roof into the starry sky above, and saw a great wave of aerial vehicles blotting out the twinkling lights that usually dotted the skies.

“Private Johnson, are we clear for a jump?”

“Na

I was already aware places such as r/linguistics and r/languagelearning would have no substance or help considering the incredibly small speaking population of the Karelian language and the people who know of this languages existence being reflective of that population. I ask here because Russia is a significantly larger country, not just size obviously, but population and has much less historical and cultural connection to Karelia. I understand that there is likely no one on this subreddit who was alive when Karelia was Finnish, much less alive long enough to remember those times, yet my options rather quickly exhaust themselves.

I have two resources. A Russian website from 2004 that requires me to double translate everything making it undesirable for learning, and a beautifully composed bachelors degree thesis from a student at Masaryk in Brno, Czechia. However, these are not enough resources by which to learn a language from.

I've attempted to make contact with Matti Meistamo, head of the linguistics department at the University of Helsinki to no response as of 8 days later. I've also just now sent emails to Siunev Sergeevich of Petrozavodsk University in Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russia, as well as an open email to Kizhi state open-air museum in Petrozavodsk as well, which states to specify and have been providing preservation and knowledge of Karelian culture for 40+ years. I've also recently made friends with someone in Helsinki, however, he is not knowledgeable on the subject. This wasn't expected of him though, as the circumstances for our meeting are completely unconnected to my pursuits of learning Karelian.

I don't need specific super helpful perfect language learning courses or some rosetta stone, but if anyone has even the slightest idea of where I can turn to look for resources it would be greatly appreciated.

I understand what I am asking here, hyper specific materials on a hyper specific language where broad materials are already incredibly hard to come by, and as such I am incredibly grateful to any and all attempts to help here, even its a goose chase in the end or a shot in the dark, the attempt is genuinely appreciated, thank you.

I am looking for a person that I can practice Finnish with, but in particular I would like it if the native speaker knew one of the Savonian dialects that is closer to the Karelian language. In any case though, any dialect will work.

Edit: C2 in Spanish, C1 in Russian. Native in English.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Hello there! Non-finnish here.I'm doing some research on Finnish folklore and mythology, and the first thing that I found is the Kalevala, which is regarded as the Finnish epic by excelence. I like to remain skeptical on things I read on the internet (especially Wikipedia and not-primary sources), so I was wondering if the Kalevala still has culture relevance in the country to this day, as a symbol of national identity. Or if there are other literature works more relevant to the folklore.

Basically I wanted confirmation of the importance of the Kalevala. I don't want to disrepect Finnish culture by talking about things I don't know about, such as this. And I think asking actual people from Finland might be better than just buying what an internet page says.

Also, if this post doesn't belong to the subreddit I'm really sorry. I didn't find any other subreddit about finnish mythology. Please tell me and I'll inmediately remove the post!

edit: Thank you very much to everyone for answering! I'm glad I asked, having an insightful view it's so useful

A play on words.

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Hello Reddit, decided to try to give meaning to all the server names. This is part 1,I had to split it because it was over 40k altogether.

Disclaimer / this is just little old me doing my lazy, basic ass googling, so feel free to help fill out what I left out cuz if i didnt find it relatively quickly i skipped, and correct me if I was wrong or refering to the wrong meaning. Ill try my best to update, mb add links and stuff. Also shoutout to the devs if they ever see this, thanks for the journey through history and mythology !

NA EAST

Aarnivalkea = in Finnish mythology, a will o' the wisp that burns over a hidden treasure. Generally will o' the wisp is an atmospheric ghost light seen by travelers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes. The phenomenon is know in much of European folklore by a variety of names, including jack-o'-lantern, friar's lantern, hinkypunk and hobby lantern and is said to mislead travelers by resembling a flickering lamp or lantern.
Adlivun = the spirits of the departed who reside in the underworld , in the Inuit religion. Roughly
translated as "those beneath us". Inuit are indigenous peoples of the Arctic region.
Argadnel = in Celtic mythology, meaning "plain of silver cloud", one of the Islands of the Earthly
Paradise that were visited by Bran the Blessed, "Blessed Crow", a giant and king of Britain
Atvatabar = The Goddess of Atvatabar, novel written by William Richard Bradshaw, an Irish-born American author. The premise is by entering the interior of the hollow Earth via a Symmes Hole, the protagonists from the world above find an advanced civilization who use spiritual power to do everything from maintain youth to resurrect the dead. It gets heated from there.
Aztlan = name of the mythical homeland of the Aztecs, the ancient Mesoamerican civilization also known as the Mexica. According to their origin myth, they left Aztlan at the behest of their god/ruler Huitzilopochtli, to find a new home in the Valley of Mexico. In the Nahua language, Aztlan means “the Place of Whiteness” or “the Place of the Heron.”
Babilary =
Barataria = a fictional island awarded by noblemen to Sancho Panza as a prank in Don Quixote, a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615. A founding work of Western literature, it is often labeled as the first modern novel and is considered one of the greatest wo

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.