Stadin Slangi

[mago]

I just stumbled across this site: Stadin Slangi

Thought it might interest others in learning some of the local slang.

After hearing the Slangi Uutiset on Metro FM I thought it would be fun to learn some of the more common Helsinki words.

[Matula]

Stadin slangi is pretty much dead these days. Most people in Helsinki are from elsewhere, and Stadin slangi is hated throughout Finland, and not considered Finnish or any language at all. So, even if anyone knew how to speak it, they wouldn't dare unless they want to get beaten. It's usually percieved as faux-aristocratic, which it most certainly isn't. Stadin slangi is a working class dialect.

The bottom line is: I wouldn't bother.

[Hank W.]

So, even if anyone knew how to speak it, they wouldn't dare unless they want to get beaten.

Lähe dille dallaan, tai mä knekkaan sua daijjuun.

[enk]

After hearing the Slangi Uutiset on Metro FM I thought it would be fun to learn some of the more common Helsinki words.

Is anyone else bothered by the stilted way the Slangi Uutiset is read
on that station? I have to turn it off it annoys me so much

But I love listening to the older people I know speak stadin slangi

-enk

[Hank W.]

I've actually never heard it on radio. Come to think of it the last person that spake it "naturally" was my late brother-in-law. Of course he spoke a different generational slangi than my dad. And I was given a whooping if I dared to call my mother "mutsi" as we were aspiring to be middle class and not some scum off a bedsit in Sörnäinen.

[EP]

Yes, slangi was "street language" that working class youth and street gangs spoke from early 1900s till 1950s. It is a mixture of dialectical Finnish and Swedish combined and mixed, with some additions from Russian. I think "mutsi" for "äiti" is really just about the only word that is still commonly used. Or are there oyhers that I just cannot remember? "Tsau" and "tsaukki" were used as greetings still in 1960s, but I think I have not heard them later. [/quote]

[EP]

Now that I think of it: Tsau is just Italian ciao written in a Finnish way.

[Hank W.]

Onks tsufee? Jebulis, mut mölö on hapanta. Piffaa spaddu, mä käyn hakee röökiä skruudiksella?

[EP]

OK, I accept "rööki" (cigarette), from Swedish "röka" (to smoke), and "skruudis" (lunch hour). And "piffaa" (lend).. But I don´t understand "spaddu" or "tsufe". "Mölö" I understand only from the context.

[sinikettu]

olut = bisse
I have heard that around Hakaniemi pubs

[Hank W.]

Outside a bar: Mä pyysin mikolta pari bischofshofenia ja heti lentomäkeen.

[hellogoodbye]

"mölö" = milk = mjölk(swe) so its easy to understand. my dad always speaks me "stadin slangi" thats hella annoying.


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