Leftover winter ice on the Pyhäjärvi lake

Leevi is doing fine and the rest of us have had normal Thursday routines. Some photographing and walking along banks of Pyhäjärvi lake in the evening.

The article of YLE news tells about a study of Finnish youth slang:

"The Helsinki slang association Stadin slangi, the Institute for the Languages of Finland and Helsinki University have teamed up to document the language used by Finnish school kids in the 2010s.

Finnish youth slang vocabulary includes some old familiar urban slang – much of it based on Swedish or Russian – but is of course heavily influenced by English teen slang and technology-related terms and abbreviations.

Many of the new words come from English and social media. These include many that are widely used by English-speaking youngsters, such as BFF, LOL, YOLO, facepalm, and some that are even familiar to older generations such as FYI. And – as anywhere in the world – teen slang is heavy on irony, sarcasm and self-deprecation."

A small dictionary of Finnish teenspeak:

angstata: to worry or stress excessively, to be grumpy or angstful
bff, besu: best friend(s) (forever)
chillata: to chill out, take it easy
datata, datailla: to use a computer
dissata: to diss (disrespect, insult)
dösä/dösäri: bus/ticket
EMT: I don’t know/nothing (en mä tiedä/ei mitään)
EVM: I can’t remember (ei voi muistaa)
facepalm: gesture signifying embarassment, disappointment or cringeworthiness
feidata: to fade, i.e. to leave. By extension, to fail to show up or do something.
feilata: to fail
hottis: hottie
jäädä fakkiin: to get hooked on (doing) something
krebata: to party like crazy (kreisibailata)
KVG: look it up on (expletive) Google, i.e., I have no idea (Katso v***u Googlesta)
käty: parents are away (kämppä tyhjänä = the house is empty)
lagata: a computer or other device is slow (lagging)
lanittaa: to hook up with friends’ computers via a local area network (LAN) to play games and/or share files
leijua: to be overconfident or smug (literally, to float)
nevari, nevöhöördi: completely unknown (from “never heard of”)
nice, jees, kivsu: nice, yes, cool, fun
ottaa brunaa: to sunbathe (from Swedish brun = brown)
paardit: party
posse/jengi: gang, group of friends
rageta: to be enraged
randomi: random, whatever
salee: certainly (also used ironically)
semi: sort of, somewhat
servata: to silence someone with a clever comment
sluibailla: to avoid responsibility or slip out of a situation
spede: an annoying, possibly arrogant person
spessu: special
spora: tram (from Swedish spårvagn)
stalkata/kytätä: to stalk, spy on
swag: a confident, sexy, well-dressed person who doesn’t care what others think – or an insult for someone who sees him or herself this way
systeri/sis, broidi/bro, mutsi, faija: sister, brother, mother, father
syyhkiä: to steal
terde: (bar) terrace, beer garden, sidewalk tables
tytsy, tyty, muidu, kisu, muikkeli, muija, bööna, chicksi: girl
ugu bre: OK
YOLO: You only live once


+5° C sunny, last night -5°C