Lovely. My backend guy needs to work with some over-engineered API in one of the major services. The API needs some data but nobody seems to know what the fuck that data should be.
@jws Usually they mean the same. For example, Matinkylä means ”Matti’s village”. In Swedish that is ”Matts by” that gets shortened to Mattby. Languages are weird.
@jws Also, there are three metro stations that have a name in English too. Those are the Central Railway Station, Helsinki University, and Aalto University. I think you will understand why those stations have English name.
@jws Ha! Nope, that’s just the wall. ?
Swedish is the second official language of Finland. If a place has different names in Swedish and Finnish they both need to be there.
Oh, also this finally happened. They opened it on Saturday, but I took the first ride yesterday when I came home from work.
@streakmachine I find it funny that phonetically Finnish Swedish is closer to Norwegian than to Swedish Swedish (rikssvenska). But then again, the Norther you go in Sweden, the more closer to Norwegian and Finnish Swedish the spoken Swedish becomes.
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@streakmachine Plus, they speak Norwegian, which one can understand, unlike Danish or the so-called Swedish they speak in Skåne.