How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country
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How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country
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Re: How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country
#2Finland has some interesting literary quirks. My favorite is that it's one of the few places other than the Vatican where you can read the news in Latin, for example:
https://areena.yle.fi/1-1931339
It's an account of the US/North Korea meeting in Singapore. A little out of date on July 18 but still appealing since most other 'news' you can read in Latin happened 2000 years ago.
Re: How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country
#3Finland has some interesting literary quirks. My favorite is that it's one of the few places other than the Vatican where you can read the news in Latin, for example: https://areena.yle.fi/1-1931339 It's an account of the US/North Korea meeting in Singapore. A little out of date on July 18 but still appealing since most other 'news' you can read in Latin happened 2000 years ago.
This is interesting. But why does anyone bother to write news in Latin?
Re: How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country
#4Finland has some interesting literary quirks. My favorite is that it's one of the few places other than the Vatican where you can read the news in Latin, for example: https://areena.yle.fi/1-1931339 It's an account of the US/North Korea meeting in Singapore. A little out of date on July 18 but still appealing since most other 'news' you can read in Latin happened 2000 years ago.
This is interesting. But why does anyone bother to write news in Latin?
Because they can!
Re: How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country
#5Finland has some interesting literary quirks. My favorite is that it's one of the few places other than the Vatican where you can read the news in Latin, for example: https://areena.yle.fi/1-1931339 It's an account of the US/North Korea meeting in Singapore. A little out of date on July 18 but still appealing since most other 'news' you can read in Latin happened 2000 years ago.
This is interesting. But why does anyone bother to write news in Latin?
Why not? It's fun to bring old languages back to life.
Also, Latin is a better 'universal language' than many alternatives, in part because it occupied exactly that role for many centuries throughout much of Europe. Something to consider in the EU if Brexit goes through. ;)
Re: How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country
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This is interesting. But why does anyone bother to write news in Latin?
Why not? It's fun to bring old languages back to life. Also, Latin is a better 'universal language' than many alternatives, in part because it occupied exactly that role for many centuries throughout much of Europe. Something to consider in the EU if Brexit goes through. ;)
English will still be the official language of two EU countries :)
Re: How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country
#7Finland has some interesting literary quirks. My favorite is that it's one of the few places other than the Vatican where you can read the news in Latin, for example: https://areena.yle.fi/1-1931339 It's an account of the US/North Korea meeting in Singapore. A little out of date on July 18 but still appealing since most other 'news' you can read in Latin happened 2000 years ago.
Off-topic from the OP article, I encourage anyone who knows a Romance language or two to read this. With a little knowledge of current events and a few choice neologisms (methano, Coreae, nuclearibus) it's astounding how much you can understand.
Re: How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not? It's fun to bring old languages back to life. Also, Latin is a better 'universal language' than many alternatives, in part because it occupied exactly that role for many centuries throughout much of Europe. Something to consider in the EU if Brexit goes through. ;)
English will still be the official language of two EU countries :)
Still be one official language of two EU countries.
Ireland has Irish, and Malta has Maltese; both non-Germanic languages, very different from English.
Oddly, Brexit can solidify the use of English as a common language in the EU, since its general use can now be considered not to give a political advantage to the UK.
(Of course, English is already a default de-facto common language in the EU, but some larger countries can be rather protective of their national language in an official capacity.)
Re: How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country
#9One Finnish scifi author that I've particularly enjoyed is Hannu Rajaniemi, who has a PhD in Physics and writes excellent speculative novels like The Quantum Thief and The Fractal Prince.
Re: How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
English will still be the official language of two EU countries :)
Still be one official language of two EU countries. Ireland has Irish, and Malta has Maltese; both non-Germanic languages, very different from English. Oddly, Brexit can solidify the use of English as a common language in the EU, since its general use can now be considered not to give a political advantage to the UK. (Of course, English is already a default de-facto common language in the EU, but some larger countrie…
As former Swiss resident, and fluent speaker of three of the national languages, seeing Swiss speak among themselves in English was always kind of ironic. :)