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- Finnish_profanity abstract "Many Finns use profanity in everyday speech when compared to other nationalities. While not all Finns swear, frequent swearing is a mark of youth culture, sometimes the elderly, and usually not the middle-aged. However, it is commonly considered impolite to swear excessively in public and official occasions, and particularly in front of children in all regions of the world. Use of swearwords may also imply familiarity as opposed to official distance. Swearwords are used as intensifiers, adjectives, adverbs, particles and to start or finish sentences. There is also an aggressive mood that involves omission of the negative verb ei while implying its meaning with a swear word.The words often have old origins and some have Pagan roots that after Christian influence were turned from names of deities and spirits to profanity and used as such. Etymologies are a mixture of religious words and ancient Finnish words involving excretions or sexual organs or functions. Nowadays few Finns know of the origins and intended original use of the words. A book called Suuri kirosanakirja ("The great dictionary of profanities") has been compiled. The people in the neighbouring countries to Finland often consider Finnish swear words harsher than their own, and even use heavily mis-pronounced versions of them, most notably perkele. Native Finns tend to consider the harshness exaggerated, while others use it to their advantage.[citation needed] Finns swear more than their Nordic neighbors or Central Europeans, reaching the same level as Scots or Russians.Euphemistically, virtually any word can be used in place of profanity by for example preceding it with voi like (an interjection meaning "oh!", for example voi paska "oh shit!") or adding vieköön (third person singular imperative of the verb viedä "to take", for example hiisi vieköön "may the goblin take it"). These were more prominent in older Finnish, e.g. raato is closest to "corpse" or like peto "the beast". There are also other similar non-offensive constructs like taivahan talikynttilät ("tallow candles of heaven"). There is also an inventory of non-offensive curse words.".
- Finnish_profanity wikiPageExternalLink D1.html.
- Finnish_profanity wikiPageID "2747989".
- Finnish_profanity wikiPageRevisionID "606483948".
- Finnish_profanity hasPhotoCollection Finnish_profanity.
- Finnish_profanity subject Category:Finnish_culture.
- Finnish_profanity subject Category:Profanity_by_language.
- Finnish_profanity comment "Many Finns use profanity in everyday speech when compared to other nationalities. While not all Finns swear, frequent swearing is a mark of youth culture, sometimes the elderly, and usually not the middle-aged. However, it is commonly considered impolite to swear excessively in public and official occasions, and particularly in front of children in all regions of the world. Use of swearwords may also imply familiarity as opposed to official distance.".
- Finnish_profanity label "Finnish profanity".
- Finnish_profanity sameAs m.080l3c.
- Finnish_profanity sameAs Q5450867.
- Finnish_profanity sameAs Q5450867.
- Finnish_profanity wasDerivedFrom Finnish_profanity?oldid=606483948.
- Finnish_profanity isPrimaryTopicOf Finnish_profanity.