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Sounds like French accent…
(even if it’s obviously in Finland)
Surprinsenly (Did I spell that correctly [Did I spell THAT right?] ?)
many people know finnish language? are there many finns or just ppl who know the language?
Here’s a Finn but not sure if I know the language! Is this broken Engrish?
this is in vantaa airport. I saw it last summer… crazy and I LOL’d when I saw it.
tho it is funny that 4 words translate (vaguely) to 11
Not directly.
The word for word translation of the Finnish is
“Unfortunately elevator is broken”
Someone needs to explain how “Unfortunately elevator is broken” got mangled into this sorry mess.
In Finnish it doesn’t seem necessary to explain that it was not their fault
That’s exactly what I thought.
Finnish has a word for “Unfortunately”?
Elevator is broken. Live with it!
sounds more like them.
Ice cold not Ace cold ^_^ (I guess that whats you get from writing long comments at 1:13am…)
Like, totally, dude.
duuuuuude! sweeeeeet!
*sigh*
That’s the kind of sign I would need on some of these really bad hangover-days..
is not broken!
is so broken!
is not!
is so!
(obviously an argument between children)
Even the Finnish is misspelled, elevator is hissi not hiss.
Guess it’s having a hissi fit!
Aaaaaaargh! Another one for Dreadful Pun Hell (enjoy the party).
Hiss is meaning elevator in Swedish.
Probably the sign was written near the Swedish border.
Argh! Snakes 0n An Elevator. Coming to a theatre near you.
…with soundtrack by Flo Rida
It’s like a little poem. It has such nice rhythm. It’s meant to be read in some smoke-filled club in the basement of a condemned building.
This elevator is so — *clutches hand to chest dramatically* — broken
Woah, like, total bummer, girlfriend!
Crap, I am so going to have to walk.
How broken is it?
It won’t go down? Must be married.
Dingo broken! (Um, that was a Rodney Rude ref, wasn’t it?)
I’m ashamed to be finnish
You are finnished?
Pretty much yes
Make sure you throw the paper in the trash basket. Our elevator is so archaic.
AAAAARGH! Off to Dreadful Pun Hell with you! (You might want to drop in on the Naughtiness Expedition Party whilst you’re there.)
They can’t even spell hissi in finnish… the elevator that’s SO broken
LOL
Finland rocks! That’s where Santa comes from. Although they have trouble with english. Except for the educated ones.
Uh, they have trouble with English? My fiance is Finnish and i’ve been to finland on numerous occasions – everyone I ever met spoke English very well. Even the older generations.
And, considering the amount of people, other than the finnish ofcourse, that can actually speak Finnish, I find your comment narrow-minded and, to some extent, pretty racist. Why on earth should everyone speak English? Its one of the dullest languages there is.
Hei moi.
English has input from more other languages and a larger working vocabulary than many other euro-based languages … I suggest it isn’t the language but rather the unoriginality of native speakers you might have met?
The catalogued number of vocabulary terms in English – excluding scientific and technical – is half a million; German has about two hundred thousand, French about a hundred thousand. I’d definitely say English itself is not dull; it’s how people use it.
As an aside, I think it’s the wide variety of vocabulary in it that leads to the Engrish that is SO quality!
and The French have no word for “entrepeneur”…..
muhahahaha
They don’t have a word for French kiss, either. The best you can do in French is a description: s’embrasser en s’entreroulant les langues, kissing while intertwining tongues. Takes a large part of the fun out of it, unless you get to do a practical example with the right person:P
That’s what I mean: they don’t talk about it – they just DO it!
Neither does English. You just used two words for describing what we in Sweden would say “tungkyss”!
But then again – we have a lot of words for that….
OK seriously:
In French you can absolutely say it in 1 word: “patin” or “pelle” in popular language.
Or they call it “baiser lingual” or “baiser profond”, what are 2 words each .
That’s not worse than in English at all!
And IF you want to compare languages: is it a sign of quality if a language seems to need another language / people to describe something very human and widespread: why is it in English FRENCH kiss?
…and then backbiting THAT language…
Actually we do. It’s “entrepreneur”
Make the pie higher! *giggle giggle*
while Lithuanian language has over 2,000,000 catalogued vocabulary terms.
uhm…hallo?
it has nothing to do with racism!
we “pick” on everyone who mispells english here because IT’S FUNNY
jeez…
‘they have trouble with english. Except for the educated ones.”
Why pick on the Finns? You could apply that same comment to just about any country where the main language is English.
Oh, and the North Pole has moved to Finland? Global warming is now extreme!
Santa does not live in the north pole, instead in Korvatunturi, Finland. You moron.
seeing as there is only water at the north pole….
Is this a 5 minute argument or the full half hour?
And which version of the Santa legend are we talking about?
Also:” seeing as there is only water at the north pole….” Correct, but a lot of it is the hard type called “ice”. Real people have walked and driven on it. I”m sure a magic man with flying reindeer could live there.
Monty Pyton FTW!
Welcome to the party, elarko! I was starting to think all the Python fans had gone. And it was an internet-winning Python thread that got me interested in this site.
In Year 8, my geography teacher told us that Father Christmas has to chain his icebergs together so they don’t all float off in different directions, because if the toy workshop floated in one direction and the reindeers’ stables drifted off in another, he’d have to get tugboats to get them back together again. Fair dinkum, that’s what she said. I’m sure she did drugs behind the staff room.
I assume Santa here was just making reference to the fact that this sign obviously has some troubles with English.
But yeah, most of the Finns I’ve met speak better English than most of the native English speakers I’ve met…
well yeah, they are speaking english in a purely educational sense, its not their native tounge.
i can amagine a teen girl saying that
‘ the elevator is SOOO broken
I’m hissing all the way.. am i cool now?
I LOL’d due to happenstance
This immediately reminded me of Dr. Horrible’s, “Really, what a crazy random happenstance!”
Yeap, I thought the exact same thing.
Happenstance notice: the last word of act 1 is: “Balls!”
my question who did the happenstance in the elevator and did they not know better?
Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.
Dude.
Finngrish ftw.
The elevator should be hanging out with the Power 9 and Skullclamp… cookies to whomever gets the reference
I had the same association
… except that I meant to comment the previous comment but failed. Too bad.
Happenstance?!?!?
A new word has seen the light of day!
Happenstance is an existing word. Portmanteau of happening and circumstance.
The light of day of at least a hundred years, actually …
Origin:
1895–1900; happen + (circum)stance
[Random House dictionary]
But, welcome to the party anyway! It’s a real word, go ahead and use it all you want.
*hisses on Rikki*
could it BE anymore broken?
Like, our elevator is, like, SOOOOOO broken. You’ll have to like, take the, like, stairs. Chyah. Bum-mer…
I find this poetic and charming. So it’s Engrish, but it’s entirely comprehensible. And funny. How many Americans would even think to use a word like “happenstance”?
this sign is SOOOOOOO broken
lol XD Actually made me laugh XD
I don’t know if anyone mentioned this yet but even one the the four finnish words is misspelled.
“Hissi” = elevator is missing one i.
Well, maybe if you’d done more playtesting, your elevator would be balanced.
whoa we we’re like totally on vacation in finland and we saw this elevator and it was like SO broken, and i was like shut up! and like could it BE any more broken!!??
This elevator is so broken, yo mama must have stepped into it! (Also, yo mama is fat.)
Happenstance sounds like a happy circumstance!
Or circumcision
Happencision? Be extremely careful when sharpening your tool on a rotary grinding wheel or you won’t be happy at all! *eyes water*
this reads like a poem.
Sounds like that Pretenders song, Back on the Chain Gang.
You are SO broken, young lady, said the happestance to the elevator.
Hmm, I think this sign was made on purpose, so someone could take a picture of it and upload to kuvaton.com! I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case.
As a Finn, I’m more ashamed about some Finns’ comments here than that poor translation. No, not all Finns yell at people like “Santa Claus comes from Korvatunturi, not North Pole you sucker n00bs” :<
But hey, at least Finland got some publicity here \o/
They couldn’t help it. The happenstance was well past controlling.
your lazyass SO could use the stairs anyway
even thy fingrihs weird “hissi” = elevator, was so wrong.
that evevator is, like, so broken! *giggles like a school girl*
loooool it sounds like ye olde english…
beyonde….^^^
Sincerest regards,
-Chief LOLcat
How broken is it?!
so broken that what…
so is the spell checker!