Comments on: Viral meme all your friends already know about, #4: Loituma Girl

By: Ellen

Ellen — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:56:02 +0000

and now I have that…rhythm stuck in my head…not better than the grease songs I had… :(

lol…people are weird.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:11:09 +0000

This is also a bit of a play on the internet shock site meatspin (for the love of God, don’t google it). I’ve fallen prey to the original site once or twice – this one makes me much happier.

By: Tiara

Tiara — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:53:08 +0000

It’s Finnish, not Polish. And the bit that gets played in the clip isn’t really Finnish but some impromptu scat.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:49:09 +0000

Whatcha wan bet some chubby, greasy perverts make a habit outta knockin a few out while watchin this drawn girl wave a leek around in her drawn fist? People are soooo predictable.

By: Kira

Kira — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:30:23 +0000

This is from a cartoon called Bleach. Obviously it is an animated television show. They show it on adult swim on cartoon network if anyone is interested.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:06:52 +0000

Japan has long been fertile ground for the Moomin phenomenon, also a product of Finnish imagination. If I recall correctly, one of the daily Finnair flights connecting Helsinki to a major Japanese city was painted to resemble a moomintroll.

If I had to venture a guess over cocktails, the reason for the Japan-Finn alliance is probably a psycholinguistic bond formed between two (admittedly highly divergent) members of the Ural-Altaic language family. Linguists have found a great number of historically inexplicable parallels between the structure of Japanese and Finnish languages, which neither share with their geographic neighbors but instead with other seemingly unrelated languages like Turkish and Hungarian.

You still only hear nonsense, but the rhythm and the pseudo-words are suggestive of something more.

By: Abby

Abby — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:29:14 +0000

MAKE IT STOP!

By: Pamala

Pamala — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:08:04 +0000

Sounds like Simlish to me! :-) I needed a bright spot in an otherwise dismal day, so thanks for the link!

By: Juligirl01

Juligirl01 — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:49:28 +0000

From my pal Neal:

“The leek is an anime cliché, the words in Japanese for
leek and for sword are similar apparently so often in clownish moments
characters will feign being able to defend themselves with a leek.
It’s understood that Japanese viewers and dorks will get the joke.
She’s just said she’s going home and when asked if she will be safe,
she is yukking it up that she can defend herself.”

By: magnus

magnus — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:29:39 +0000

the warning ought to have been more seriooous!
(twitching)