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Sauna
Translation: ‘TEAM BATH’
No marre how mutch tirt you take in life you lose all in tis lace, trunk or soper. Now sarge sowers or sope. Memeber tis….. you gant take it wit you
The little … Shope
Finland, Minnesota
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Haha, Finglish.
haha thats great!
haha on kyllä hyvää Finglish! (that’s some good Finglish)
They must’ve been rather “trunk” when they wrote that.
Being Finnish they probably were.
When I was trunk, I never taught I vas Finnish. Lease not til I cooden memper tis. Swy I gant take it, no marre how mutch.
Skunker den a trunk.
Jus memper tis, you may be tunker tan you trink.
Tey haf good schnapps an wodka.
You might need a designated writer.
That might be hard to find. So many writers are heavy drinkers.
Texting and dialing while drunk usually leads to disaster. Turn in the phone when you turn in the keys.
That would definitely help telephone hotlilne crisis workers, since so many drunks get “telephonitis” and just feel they have to call someone, and if they run out of relatives and friends who put up with them, that’s who they call. And talking to a drunk on a crisis line is a waste of time, since they usually want to argue with everything you say, and more often than not won’t remember a thing the next morning.
Amen! Been there, done that–but not for years now. I’m a relatively quick learner.
Oh, I got off crisis lines about 20 years ago myself.
JOHN,
ShadowSplicer stole your avatar. If he decides to write JohnB as his name, we won’t know who is you and who is him.
Wait. We will know because your comments will be the smart, intellegent ones.
He who steals my identity steals trash.
very sexy trash though.
*blush* Well, it’s good to know I’m not the only one who finds a sense of humor very sexy.
Deliberate gobbledygook fail.
The last time I used that middle word, I awaited moderation for quite a while. So watch your potty mouth, dude!
And I’ve been moderated twice now for posting Wikipedia entries about commercial companies (not in the field of producing web LOLs). Just what are the rules on what is objectionable content?
The only thing I know for sure is there are a few words to try to stay away from, but beyond that it’s beyond me.
Eeeerr…. Finland “Minnesota”…??
It’s a township in Northeastern Minnesota, north of Two Harbors. And, having grown up in the area, the old Finns really do talk like this!
yeah, the rednecks around here in Finland talk like that… in any language. d=t and so on… not the civilized once, thank God
onceones, sorryOh. Intentional. But of course.
HYVÄ SUOMI! \o/ (go finland!)
Heehee, I’m from Finland (the Finland in Scandinavia) and this made my day. Thanks.
Thanks for the comment! Just goes to show how the humor here is not about putting anybody down, it’s about having fun with language.
Tats a stupit ting to say. Opviously tis is verra deaminink for te finnish. Pe nice and tont make fun of tem just pecause they can’t pronounce p and t.
You are the first Finn I’ve seen who says that his country is in Scandinavia. In fact, most of the ones I’ve met get annoyed when people say that.
Oh… Sarge…
No sarge for sowers or sope! (But sarge for everybody else!)
Sarge is busy blowing up the present.
I wonder if that’s anywhere near Apple Valley, MN. ROAD TRIP!
My state should be renamed to “Insanity”. Ahhhh, soccer moms, white guys trying to rap, frozen winters and hellish summers.
And a wrestler Governor, you memper tis?
Nah, up on teh North Shore of Superior.
Bet they got snow already.
Why did I read “white guys trying to fap”?
See; they warned you it would send you blind! :p
Heh, that would be funny if it was accidental. But no, it’s mean to be that way, to amuse tourists.
Meant to amuse the people who remember their parents or grandparents or great grandparents talking with this accent.
Still funny.
If I didn’t know it was only a spoken language, I could of sworn it was creole :p
Finnish accent lol
Neither Finglish nor Engrish but local color dialect, written this way on purpose.
the bottom line says “the Little finn Shop”
that’s where the bought the sign. “The Little Finn Shop” in Finland, Minnesota
And another thing…
Ode to Saint Urho
by Gene McCavic and Richard Mattson
Virginia, Minnesota
Ooksi kooksi coolama vee
Santia Urho is ta poy for me!
He sase out ta hoppers as pig as pirds.
Neffer peefor haff I hurd tose words!
He reely tolt tose pugs of kreen
Braffest Finn I effer seen
Some celebrate for St. Pat unt hiss nakes
Putt Urho poyka kot what it takes.
He kot tall and trong from feelia sour
Unt ate kala moyakka effery hour.
Tat’s why tat kuy could sase toes peetles
What krew as thick as chack bine neetles.
So let’s give a cheer in hower pest vay
On Sixteenth of March, St. Urho’s Tay.
Ya, dis is funny, yaknow. Tanks fur da laff from annuder ranger.
That’s brilliant
thanks!
I’ll a have bath by myself thank you very much .
And if you have an emergency, no-one will notice.
i think he typed it in the dark, while completely hammered 0_o
Finnish? Swedish? I thought it sounded Cajun.
More like LOLspeak… Perhaps a Finnish dialect? I dinna know they’d Finnished another version of LOLspeak….
Am I late for the team bath? Or do I still fit in?
Swimwear is normal in mixed saunas, unless the participants opt otherwise by unanimous vote (or acclamation).
I am wearing a swimsuit and I don’t plan to opt otherwise.
It’s ok to look, but member tis…. you gant take it wit you.
I have a few rules before getting int he tub. No touching, no splashing me with water, no eating, no farting, you better not be naked in there, no whispering in my ear, hands where I can see them.
Ohh forget it. I might just go and take a shower by myself.
but the blog will go flat without your cutting remarks!
don’t go!
A sauna is not a tub, it is a steam room.
Yes, but this is a “team bath”, so there has to be a bath tub somewhere.
nope. there’s no tub in a sauna. just benches, a stove, and either buckets of water or a shower. it says “team bath” because a sauna is where you bathe.
I think I just found my next embroidery sampler! Should I hang it on the wall or make it a pillow?
Bath towel, definitely bath towel.
Or toilet paper.
Embroidered toilet paper! You just found the ideal gift for the person who has everything.
I thought the ideal gift for someone who has everything was penicillin?
If that person who has everything, happens to have diarrhea he/she will appreciate the embroided toilet paper along with the Penicillin.
Vancomycin, just to be on the safe side.
I bow to your superior knowledge, but for joke purposes I’d suggest penicillin is better known.
Vancomycin is more powerful, though. If a bug gets through vancomycin, you may be in deep doo-doo.
Finnish?
I thought it was Eddie Murphy doing Buckwheat sings.
Unce, tice, fee tines a mady…..
You mean Buhweet tings.
From this site: www. sainturho. Com / origin. htm
Brief note on the Finnish language: Finnish has several fewer consonants than English. Missing are B, C, D, and G. Consequently there are no sounds for those letters, and B becomes P, C becomes S or K, D becomes T, and G becomes K. When Finnish rally drivers talk about transmission problems with their cars, they refer to it as a “kearpox”. There are also no articles in Finnish sentence structure — the, a or an are not part of Finnish grammar.
Then it sounds like Finnish should be mixed with Hawaiian, that would create the perfect language!
It sounds like Finnish and Hawaiian should sound more alike!
The Hawaiians have the easiest time pronouncing my Finnish surname with its double vowels.
I wouldn’t doubt that at all, since when the first settlers came to Hawaii, they went through a bad storm, and all their consonants got washed overboard.
The rallying term “yumping”, meaning taking a crest so fast the car becomes airborne, comes from Finnish rally drivers’ attempts at saying “jumping” in English, so they have actually modified the English language.
I’m no linguist, but it seems to me that part of the reason English is so hard to spell is that we’ve integrated so many words from so many different languages, where the spelling rules are all so different.
You sir are correct; English is a crude mix of Norse, German (or at least germanic), Latin (mostly french) and of course old-english.
Oh and odd bits of Spanish, Russian, increasingly Japanese…
What happened to the “H”s then? Or the “P” in Place?
And the S in the Team Bath?
D exists in Finnish.. even in native words (e.g. syödä [to eat], juoda [to drink], tahdon [I want]). It might be less common than other letters, but at least it’s there.
However I wouldn’t be surprised if people living outside cities can’t pronounce “d”.
stupid
That’s a wonderful piece of self-insight.
how was the team bath
Here you go, you might need this one: (?)
It is not as straight as you imagine.
So this is the Finnish Mushmouth from Fat Albert?
stupid hippies, taking over the sauna when its not a team bath stupid
In what language does “Sauna” translate into “Team bath”?
Certainly not S-tonian.
What about R-tonian?
I don’t know anything about your tonian.
It isn’t my tonian!
Well, you apparently are one of the co-owners.
Why did my Reply to this post down there?
(s)team bath – just pronounced in Finglish, that’s all.
Ah, I see. They just lost their S, then.
Yes, but I am not the sole owner.
I never said you owned a fish. I did say somewhere that you must be a fish, though.
Cat does not equal fish. I’m not even a catfish!
incorrect. it does mean “team bath” you’re supposed to sauna with other people.
Sauna is a finnish word meaning “a very hot and humid place.”; so no-where does it mean ‘team bath’.
I think what they mean is ‘description’; in which case the word translation isn’t entirely incorrect, just not a great scenario to use it.
Team Bath, because team defecation never really caught on…
ahahahah. Real finglish. Try to ask a Finn to say ” Massachusets”. No Fin can pronounce it ;D
“Memper tis” – it sounds like a latin motto. Maybe for a moose-tipping club.
Motto of Finnish marines.
From the halls of Sauna Team Bath
To the shores of How Much Tirt…
it makes perfect sense if you say it with a finish accent (which i learned from jarp and jukka from viva la bam*
Oh… burn… ouch.
“Brief note on the Finnish language: Finnish has several fewer consonants than English. Missing are B, C, D, and G. Consequently there are no sounds for those letters, and B becomes P, C becomes S or K, D becomes T, and G becomes K. When Finnish rally drivers talk about transmission problems with their cars, they refer to it as a “kearpox”. There are also no articles in Finnish sentence structure — the, a or an are not part of Finnish grammar.”
That’s not actually true, I’m Finnish and we do have those letters in Finnish, we may not use them that much but we can pronounce them just like everyone else.
Ja sille suomalaiselle kuka sanoi että Suomi kuuluu Skandinaviaan, nyt olis hyvä hetki käydä läpi vähän maantietoa ja sen sellaista. 
I agree. i live here long time and first it was confused, cause sometimes you pronounce them (G,D, B, SH etc) easily and sometimes not.
with time i worked out that in the same way, how you follow vowel harmony, there is sth like consonant harmony, and you cannot pronounce words that have soft and hard consonants in different syllables. the effect is, that when you say word it is always whole soft or whole hard. but as the easiest you choose most often hard.
for example oxygene sounds: oksycene or ogzygene. first option often wins.
but anyway this “sauna” lappu rulez. it is exactly how my partner spoiles english in speaking and writing hiehie
Who is this Oxy Gene, and why are they breathing my oxygen?
That should have been “Why is he…”
voi voi
ive been here too long
Here? At Engrish Funny? No such thing as too long!
Itsekin jäin hetkeksi miettimään, olenko sittenkään oikea suomalainen jos kerran osaan lausua nuo konsonantit ongelmitta.
(Ja aiempaan kommenttiin viitaten: osaan myös sanoa “Massachusetts”.)
Jostain syystä tekee mieli kaivaa Youtuuban puolelta Kivikasvoja…
I wish I could hear it
I’m still waiting for the “Bork bork bork!”
Won’t be any of that. The Chef is Swedish, and that was Finnish…
Hi Aporia! My Sweedish, or whatever language you posted in, is a little rusty. What did you say about Massachusetts again? I’m pretty sure “Ja” means “yes” and “Youtuuban” is “Youtube” but otherwise, you lost me.
It’s posted in Finnish, not Swedish. Next door, though! “Ja” means “and” in Finnish, but Youtube is correct!
Like Olut pointed out downthread, you got the language wrong.
The Massachusetts thing was in reply to an earlier comment where someone claimed no Finn can pronounce it (but I can, and I’m a Finn…), and “Youtuuba” is simply a jocular Finnicized version of Youtube. Tuuba = Finnish for tuba; the n at the end is the genitive case ending.
(Yeah, I know, I just took all the fun out of it, but hey.)
this is the last line of the play “You Can’t Take It With You” odd..
Sounds like Laurence Welk – “an a wun, an a tooa…
A sauna is a *team* bath though – that’s exactly what it is, both a thorough cleansing and social event (if you do it right).
So this is what happens when Tweety Bird opens up a Sauna. Funny!
I’m pretty sure a sign like this is hanging in Nell’s house.
Tay in da win, massa chickabee. Tay in da win.
Ui vitsi
Hooray Finland 
So Minnesota is one of the places where the finnish people went searching for a better life in America in the old days. Didn’t know about that. Bat nau Ai nou.
My parents have this sign in their sauna! lol! Every Finlander knows a relative who talks like this.
This sounds very tankerous!
Finland has one of the best school systems in the world. You wouldn’t believe that, reading these comments from Finns who don’t know whether Finland is part of Scandinavia or not…
I honestly tink dat dis wuz intenchinal; Poking fun at da norskies, donchaknow.
“I will not talk to you when you’re drunk”
Don’t think we will ever talk then!
and the funniest part is-it’s in Minnesota
what do “sarge”, and “trunk or soper” mean? can anyone write the words above with their proper spellings? please!..
sarge = charge
trunk or soper = drunk or sober
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