Talking Swedish hurts so bad in his Finnish soul! And yet, non of the other Nordics speak it better than him. D:
As you can see, I’m moving further and further away from the idea that Finland can’t talk at all. Instead I now prefer to think that he just doesn’t want to talk, and when he does, it’s in Finnish (or as here, Swedish).
That way achieve two things.
1: Everybody who doesn’t understand Finnish still don’t understand what he says, meaning he might as well be mute.
2: It illustrates that Finnish is significantly different from the other Nordic languages.
Someone will probably ask, “Why does she keep switching between talking Swedish and English?”
The answer: So non-Swedes can understand what is going on, obviously.
And just to avoid an awkward situation when you meet a Swede and feels like telling him/her that you love them, Finland is not saying “I love you” but “I love my mistress”
I feel this so bad because a swedish friend of mine just randomly speaks swedish to me like "I know you can understand me" but i refuse to answer her It's a pride thing yes i am finnish but no i don't speak swedish.
Back in Canada, my only Swedish friend told a guy that liked me that "Jag älskar härskarinna" only meant 'I love you".
She was with me when he said it to me, and all I could say is "Well, who is she? She sounds nice."
They guy was confused, I told him what it meant, and he went completely red.
My friend burst out laughing, and a few other Swedish students looked at him weird for the rest of the year.
Aww nooo, poor Finland ;-;
You are too cruel, Sister Sweden... Finland will never recover from that.
(You better hide, Sweden, I have a feeling he will take his emotional damage out on you.)
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