the debasement of language

[perlmonger]

/me reads the words "absurdeja ideoita" on a Finnish webshite and despairs. The addition of loan words to a language for new ideas is fair enough, I suppose, but here are two words that have perfectly good Finnish equivalents.

Bah.

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[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

Tove Janson had Swedish (or the bastardised variant thereof spoken in Finland) as her first language; the Moomin books were, I think, written so and only translated into Finnish.