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If people who aren't French in the slightest can name their kids things like Charles and Amy, I think you're covered. Names have to get "mainstreamed" * somehow.
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How about Simo?
or "The White Death" if you want...
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Aww. Estonians get no love.
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If I wanted to raise a super sniper that'd be his name. And I'm half Danish so it isn't completely stupid.
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I also love Finnish names (and Finnish words in general). They're so euphonic and musical when you say them.
Also, the "UO" diphthong is fun.
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Most of the spoken Finnish I've heard is actually sung Finnish (from my international folk music collection), but it seems like a good language for shouting at people in. Or maybe that's just because the songs tend to be so energetic.
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I thought German was the king of shouting languages.
German is a language where every other word sounds like the guttural growl of a demon. In the awesome way.
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People always say that about German (or more generally that it's a "harsh" language) but I never found it to be true. I think Americans just have never heard German spoked by anyone but Nazis in movies.
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The Finnish language is beautiful.
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I'm Finnish and find the language to be really inexpressive compared to English. I find myself to be able to express myself with much more subtlety while speaking English. The exeption is swearing. Finnish is an incredibly good language for swearing, and you can express incredible amounts of pissed-offness with a single word.
All in all, Finnish has a lot of nice sounding words, but also lots of ugly and bad-sounding words. I quess that goes for every language.
Tarja! *tries to look innocent*
I kinda have to second that German comment.
People always say that about German (or more generally that it's a "harsh" language) but I never found it to be true.I think "Niko" is a Finnish name, too? Is pretty.
edited 1st Mar '11 6:06:26 AM by Fawriel
Big surprise we both agree on that one! ;)
I thought Niko is a short form of Nicholas.
Heh. Yeah, Tarja is a lovely name.
I am ashamed to say that I used to think it was pronounced 'Tar-ga', which sounds less pleasant. How it is really pronounced, however, is beautiful.
German harshness totally depends on the dialect. Prussians sound incomprehensibly harsh to Viennese folks, while Corinthians sound a bit like drunken kittens. I think most Americans never get to appreciate the diversity of dialects that we ... eeehm... "enjoy".
And also, Finnish sounds extremely funny, and very "soft" to me.
edited 2nd Mar '11 6:04:22 AM by vijeno
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If I wanted to raise a super sniper that'd be his name. And I'm half Danish so it isn't completely stupid. If?! Actually, yeah, I can see why you wouldn't want to do that. I'm not sure I would feel very confident disciplining a super sniper with the morality of a small child.
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Concerning Finnish being a good language to curse with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpzzeksA-wg
We don't need a million different curse words, when "Perkele!" can emote a million different types of angers.
edited 2nd Mar '11 10:07:34 AM by Kerrah
I would like to challenge the German comment by saying that Chinese is a better language for shouting; I haven't heard a lot of German speakers, though, so feel free to dispute this.
As for Finnish names... I'm more fascinated by Russian names, but I do find it interesting enough to pose questions.
For anyone well-versed in Finnish: why do a lot of Finnish surnames end in "-nen"?
It's because many Finnish farming families were named after the places they lived near. Finns didn't have a tradition for surnames until the Swedes started making a census of all their subjects, so all the families had to pick names for the sake of the survey.
"Virtanen" is probably the most common Finnish surname. "Virta" means stream, so the name originally meant a family who lived near a river.
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Icelandic names are awesome because they still use patronymics.
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Well, the only Finnish i ever heard was Finntroll's singer doing his job.
Not sure if representative of the language. 
Hell, Finnish itself is pretty awesome (and funny-sounding too).
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They're just so cool sounding.
Aini, Aino, Jouko, Lumi... it's just... ahhh, so pretty!
This may sound kind of silly to some people since I'm not Finnish in the slightest, but if I ever have a child someday, I think I'd like to name her something like "Lumi".
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