Brassinyymi



Brassinyymi (English: Brazilian Anon) is a Brazilian who is both hated and loved mostly in Ylilauta due to the fact he managed to learn Finnish all by himself in the course of two years.

History and Krautchan beginnings
In January 2010, Brassinyymi was browsing the music community Last.fm when he suddenly stumbled upon the Finnish heavy metal band Stam1na. After getting automatically hooked on the music he'd just discovered he started to develop an intense interest for the Finnish language. Brassinyymi started to lurk Krautchan, mostly in the first half of 2011, where he got to know Finns who were hostile and extremely reluctant to believe that a Brazilian was writing in Finnish. Despite the constant bursts of anger he's been since the beginning receiving, he started to created Suomilanka's (literally: Finland Threads) wherein he honed his Finnish with other Finns who weren't hostile and were genuinely interested in who Brassinyymi was and what he had to say. Brassinyymi, impressively still to this very day, is unable to grasp the source of the hate that is directed towards him by raging Jonnes. He sometimes wonders if he's hated solely because of his nationality but there are some things in the intertubes that simply cannot be comprehended by common men.

Ylilauta
When Ylilauta opened its /int/ board Finns started to spam Krautchan telling the users there to immigrate to their newly inaugurated board, which was when Brassinyymi started to lurk Krautchan less often. In Ylilauta, Brassinyymi got to know a laughable reality which accorded to him to support the Finnish stereotypes. He faced (and is still facing) xenophobia and unacceptance due to the fact he's a foreigner in a Finnish board who knows Finnish.

As of August 2012, however, he's been getting treated much better by his old mates. Mates with which he spent good hours talking to in the multiple Suomilankas he made in May of that same year. Every time Brassinyymi shows up in Ylilauta with a Suomilanka his thread gets plenty of friendly individuals stating how happy they are to knows that Brassinyymi is around once again.

Corrections
Brassinyymi is an individual who just wants to watch the world burn with every single tellurian in it. He never misses a chance to correct a "native speaker of the Finnish-language" (a phrase often written by overly proud Finns) and then watch how offended Finns become. Brassinyymi, for he's an oldfag in the winterwebs, knows how touchy Finns are when it comes to being corrected. Finns simply can't take it. It's too much for them.

Are you insane? Having my Finnish corrected by a Brazilian? That's simply too much for me. There's no way I can't get angry and super offended by such an outrage. -Average Finn who lurks Ylilauta's /int/-board

Brassinyymi is very aware of the fact he's not fully proficient is Finnish and he won't miss a chance to correct Finns, ever. His corrections work in very deviant ways. He always intends to derail a thread by correcting a Finn. He's become aware of how easily affected Finns are and how promptly he can derail a thread by simply posting an abysmal statement which gets taken very seriously by Finnish linguists who happen to lurk Krautchan and Ylilauta way too often.

Olemisempi
In August 29th, Brassinyymi made a thread asking Finns to translate a sentence he wrote that didn't make any sense. The sentence was a wordplay made with words that derived from the verb olla (to be). The sentence included words like ollut and oleva in comparative and superlative forms, the word oleminen (that is a noun) used like an adjective and overall really confusing and uncommon word order.

Just as Brassinyymi, before making his thread, predicted, a shitstorm of epic proportions took place. Finns from all over Krautchan came to say that Brassinyymi didn't know Finnish for shit and that he was too illiterate to understand his own posts. Brassinyymi's IQ is reportedly superior and he's also an admirer of George Carlin, an american critic and stand-up comedian who used language in very peculiar ways. He's able to see words and phrases like no normal person would, a trait he bears and shares with very few people around the world.

His thread went all the way from 0 posts to one-hundred-and-something posts in a little less than two hours. For Brassinyymi's train of thought is too complex, Finns were not able to understand what he meant. Finns told Brassinyymi that words like olemisempi didn't exist, something with which he agreed. However, he used those words just for added effect. His intention was to confuse Finns as much as he could, a deed he succeeded in carrying out for he used words in the most confusing manners, thus driving Finns mad for they were fooled.

Later in that thread the same thing that happened in Ottoman's thread happened again: Brassinyymi got tired of explaining to Finns that the word olemisempi didn't exist and left the thread with his joke taken seriously.

Finns never learn.

Ottoman
In the second half of May 2012, Brassinyymi shared his views on the word Ottoman (from Ottoman Empire) and how much it reminded him of an inflected form of the nonexistent Finnish word oton. According to him every time he saw the word ottoman, he thought he was looking at the singular genitive form of the word oton (which does not exist in Finnish) that is formed by inserting the suffix -ton to its nominative o stem. The suffix -ton is an equivalent to the English suffix -less. The word literally means o-less, i.e. that which lacks the letter o. The Finnish language possesses 13 cases out of which one is the genitive. It's ending is -n. When a word ending with the suffix -ton is inflected to its singular genitive form, the suffix -ton becomes -ttoman. Therefore, the word oton, when inflect to its singular genitive form, becomes ottoman. However, Brassinyymi was subsequently told that the correct form of the word would be o:ttoman.

Brassinyymi made two threads in which he exposed his discovery concerning the word ottoman and in both of his threads Finns were reluctant to understand it while saying that: it was the singular genitive form of the noun otto, which it, in that case, wasn't; it was a mistyped form of the verb ottaa (ottaman), which it wasn't; it did not exist in the Finnish language, which was not seen by him as an argument, since he was simply making a remark and not trying to create a new word.

To this day, Brassinyymi's remark has still not been fully understood, despite its simplicity.

Private life
Brassinyymi is, as he has himself once put it, a Hevijonne. A Hevijonne is a Jonne who listens to heavy metal. It is important to keep in mind that this word does not imply something bad. It is a harmless word and one'll not achieve anything by trying to offend Brassinyymi with this word. Finns, however, specially Jonnes, still attempt to offend Brassinyymi by addressing him with such word. Brassinyymi is dyslexic as fuck. A condition that at times causes him to not write a word and/or write one instead that is pronounced the same way (this position/disposition). As it is a habit for Brassinyymi, he also reads posts too fast, which sometimes causes him not to read a key word of a phrase and thus causing misunderstandings. Brassinyymi is also a friendless Hikikomori who hardly ever goes out and who hasn't gone to any parties in 6 or 7 years. In short, he's a Finn who just happened to be born in Brazil.

Public Service Section
Here's a list of things Brassinyymi used to gain knowledge over the Finnish language.


 * Fred Karlsson's Finnish: An Essential Grammar
 * This book provides all the knowledge one needs to know in order to grasp the very foundation of the language. It covers all important corners of the language. However, it still isn't enough to understand all the intricacies of the Finnish language.


 * Lang-8
 * Lang-8 is the perfect website for those who enjoy writing. It allows the student to submit entries written in his L2 and have his entries corrected by native speakers. The website is also full of Asians, which means you should create an account if you're studying Japanese or Korean.


 * Livemocha
 * Although I stress that I think it's highly difficult to achieve a good level of fluency in any language through Livemocha, I still think it's a good place to get one started.


 * Uusi Kielemme
 * Covers grammar and shit.


 * Foreign Service Institute's lessons on spoken Finnish
 * Finnish pronunciation works almost the same way as the Spanish language's with the addition of the letters Ä, Ö and a differently sounding Y and H. Should anyone ever need help pronouncing a completely phonetic language, use this link.


 * Ylilauta and Northpole
 * These are good to get one acquainted with slangs and anything that has to do with spoken language.


 * WordReferece Forums
 * Language-oriented forum with dozens of sub-forums specialized in one specific language or one specific language family. Link takes you to the Finnish sub-forum where you can ask specific questions about grammar or anything that is bothering you.