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r/geography • u/True_Antelope8860 • 2d ago
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Here’s a few Finnish ones:
- Timbuktu
- Hevonkuusi, ”horse’s spruce/forest”
- Hevonvittu, ”horse’s vagina”
- Taka-Intia, ”back-India, the place behind India”. This used to be a valid term for Southeast Asia.
- Vinku-Intia, ”squeak-India”?? Vinkuintiaani, ”squeak-Indian” (as in native American, not the country of India) is a slur for indigenous people
- Missä pippuri kasvaa, ”where pepper grows” so India again I guess
- Huitsin Nevada, ”Nevada of the mountain peak” although most people don’t know what huitsi means
- Korpi, ”the backwoods”. Ihan vitun korvessa=in the backwoods af
Honorary mention for the idiom hävitä kuin pieru Saharaan, ”to disappear like a fart to Sahara”. Used when something vanishes without a trace.
3 u/korkkis 1d ago Hornan tuuttiin: to Hell’s horn Ryssän korpeen (siberia): Russian Siberia 1 u/MyDrunkAndPoliticsAc 1d ago When I lived in the backwoods, people used to say I lived in the boogeymans ass. 1 u/Blostian 1d ago Stuff also gets lost to Yemen.
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When I lived in the backwoods, people used to say I lived in the boogeymans ass.
Stuff also gets lost to Yemen.
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u/No_usernames_availab 1d ago
Here’s a few Finnish ones:
- Timbuktu
- Hevonkuusi, ”horse’s spruce/forest”
- Hevonvittu, ”horse’s vagina”
- Taka-Intia, ”back-India, the place behind India”. This used to be a valid term for Southeast Asia.
- Vinku-Intia, ”squeak-India”?? Vinkuintiaani, ”squeak-Indian” (as in native American, not the country of India) is a slur for indigenous people
- Missä pippuri kasvaa, ”where pepper grows” so India again I guess
- Huitsin Nevada, ”Nevada of the mountain peak” although most people don’t know what huitsi means
- Korpi, ”the backwoods”. Ihan vitun korvessa=in the backwoods af
Honorary mention for the idiom hävitä kuin pieru Saharaan, ”to disappear like a fart to Sahara”. Used when something vanishes without a trace.