a strange error in Ilta-Sanomat

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Tue May 28, 2013 1:01 pm

http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art-1 ... 26123.html

on that page:
"Tässä yhteydessä miesten onnistui anastamaan pöydällä olleen asiakkaan matkapuhelimen. "

I would say either "miesten onnistui anastaa pöydällä olleen asiakkaan matkapuhelin" or "miehet onnistuivat anastamaan pöydällä olleen asiakkaan matkapuhelimen".

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dflorin · Post by **dflorin** » Tue May 28, 2013 1:13 pm

Correct: "miesten onnistui anastaa", right... anastamaan is not correct in this context.

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kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Tue May 28, 2013 1:30 pm

So what happened to Iiro Rantala?

You sit in a café or on a terrace, someone ( most often someone who does not look Finnish ) steps up to you and shows you a piece of paper which he wants you ro read. When the piece of paper gets all your attention the guy´s accomplice steals your mobile or takes something from your bag. Iiro Rantala lost his wallet ( which was in his bag ).

Beware of pickpockets in crowds, especially on crowded trams and buses !

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Tue May 28, 2013 1:49 pm

Varo varkaita ! ( Beware of thiefs ! ) :
http://www.visithelsinki.fi/en/come/wel ... ickpockets

ja tässä lisää infoa:
http://yle.fi/uutiset/pickpockets_snatc ... ki/6510444

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Tue May 28, 2013 2:04 pm

I want to go to Helsinki with my pockets rigged with rat traps...

jahasjahas · Post by **jahasjahas** » Tue May 28, 2013 2:54 pm

dflorin wrote:anastamaan is not correct in this context.

That almost sounds like you're disagreeing with kalmisto's suggestion "miehet onnistuivat anastamaan pöydällä olleen asiakkaan matkapuhelimen", but I guess you're not.

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Tue May 28, 2013 3:13 pm

Well see now guys, you don't need to be fluent in Finnish to get a job at the ilta-rag

Good catch BTW... you see a few of those every now and then.

Heres another one that initially made my eyes bleed the other day: http://www.iltasanomat.fi/viihde/art-1288568327796.html - ah, they've now changed it. The ingress read "Ketä heitä uhkaa" - which if it was a quote, you shouldn't go "correcting" a direct quote = newspaper reporters are a bunch of liars who change what people say. Which pisses me off more than colloquailisms.

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 3:40 pm

http://yle.fi/uutiset/opasteteksti_ohja ... sa/6404236

"Palkkasimme työhön yrityksen, jossa on ammattikääntäjiä."

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:32 am

Istumahantuukin pittä käyttä pempun ja jaloitten alla.

But that *is* North-Sweden meänkieli - not "book Finnish". So you can debate is it to benefit the locals or some visiting southerner?
Maybe in a remote town in Scottish highlands - does the sign read in Lallans or English? And going to "correct" it will piss off the locals.

BTW the meänkieli is a riot sometimes http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.as ... ramid=1017 but it shows how languages evolve

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 8:28 pm

Pursuivant wrote:
Istumahantuukin pittä käyttä pempun ja jaloitten alla.

But that *is* North-Sweden meänkieli - not "book Finnish". So you can debate is it to benefit the locals or some visiting southerner?
Maybe in a remote town in Scottish highlands - does the sign read in Lallans or English? And going to "correct" it will piss off the locals.

According to the article in YLE Uutiset the text was meant to be Finnish and not meänkieli.

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