I always stop for a fraction of a second when someone has written ‘iff’ (or Finnish equivalent ‘joss’<\/i>) in a text (scientific or at least somewhat). That, of course, means “if and only if” (‘jos ja vain jos’<\/i>).<\/p>\n
[Useless-ish to read if you don’t understand Finnish] I just sent positive feedback to a radio station because last night I heard one of the announcers (radio jockeys) say “minun nimeni on…”<\/i> which is the proper, inflected way to say it. Usually he (the jockey) says “minun nimi on…”<\/i> which to my ear feels like a hot needle. (If you need to use the erroneous (in that context) uninflected ‘nimi’ then please at least use the colloquial ‘mun’ — not half and half.)<\/p>\n
A woman asked people for coins near the railway station this morning (she looked like a traveller though, not a professional begger). She asked me, too. That reminded me of this (extremely annoying) woman that has been standing around the exact same place (not railway station) since I was in high school (at least), so that’s 5-6 years by now. She has the same winter clothes and boots all year round and asks the passers-by “do you have any money to give” with her hand stretched out. 6 years! I wonder if anyone gives her money. If not, why does she keep doing that? Wouldn’t she be better off even in a crappy job or looking for a crappy job? That would probably be more productive than her current line of “work”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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