You know you talk to Finns too much when:
- Your mother yells at you from down the hall, and you reply “MITÄ?!?!?”
- A väiski becomes a reasonably fashionable piece of headwear.
- You discover you sometimes write about this ja that.
- You know every trick to using a sauna, except you’ve never used one.
- You sub-consciously refer to you house as taloni.
- You know 10 different ways to say hello in Finnish. Your friends know 30.
- You begin to hum random Chisu songs to yourself
- You start cheering for Räikkönen in F1 competitions
- You know how to pronounce ö
- You know there is a difference between U and UU or A and AA etc.
- Though you’ve asked a 100 times, you still don’t know exactly what they eat.
- You hang a Suomenlippu (Finnish Flag) in your bedroom.
- Muumi junk starts arriving in the mail
- You get into arguments over the difference between U and Y
- You now accept an alphabet with nine vowels
- You start pricing flights to
- Your friends subscribe you to magazines in the Finnish language
- You start speaking Finnish, and your friends actually understand you
- You answer any question with Hmm, Mhm, Mmh, or Mm, and still get the point across
- Your Advent calendar counts down to Joulu
- US to Metric conversions are Automatic
- You spend hours learning how to roll Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
- Mooses remind you of your friends
- You tell your friends it’s 50 degrees and raining in November, and they envy you
- The Kalevala is used for literary entertainment
- You think you actually want to live in
- You draw little Finnish flags everywhere.
- You start feeling guilty when it isn’t below zero outside
- You have memorized codes such as ALT-0228, which enables you to type: ä
- You start insult anyone you see who is Swedish.
- You plan to go to yliopisto
- You have papers in your desk with Finnish conjugation rules
- You start to celebrate nameday
- When you ask for a translation of a Finnish word, you expect 3 totally different English ones
:D oh my...
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