Poor Prismriver sisters... things have really been rough for them since that concert, it seems. I did chuckle when I noticed Lyrica's Vodka drink hat, though.
ThunderBird said: How about letting others into the loop as well? Joke explained.
He he! I was waiting for such a comment! "Mysko" can, in Swedish, mean something mysterious. "De e nåt mysko här" can be translated into "There's sumthin' mysterious 'bout this".
Alignn said: It might even be intentional, since Swedish used to be a mandatory subject in Finnish education.
It is obviously intentional, most Finns understand a fair amount of Swedish. Considering some of the references the author has made it is reasonable to infer that they know Swedish rather well.
No what i meant is that, what's the joke of requesting it. I mean, i did read there is a joke of requesting X or Y song in countries. But why do they request it? What's the point? Why that song? Is it bad? Hard to play? Nobody likes it? What about the song makes you want to request it to the point it became a recurring joke?
Like Free Bird, it's hard to play (9 minutes of various solos), and was very popular, so it can both be a jab "your music is bad, play free bird instead" or "you're terrible, let's see you play free bird"... though over time it just became a regular meme, as said in the comments of that post, and as such is spouted whenever possible.
It is obviously intentional, most Finns understand a fair amount of Swedish. Considering some of the references the author has made it is reasonable to infer that they know Swedish rather well.
The knowledge of Swedish varies tremendously amongst Finns. Since the 1970s, comprehensive schools have taught all pupils a minimum of three years of Swedish (or Finnish, for those whose mother tongue Swedish is). However, in large parts of Finland, the need for Swedish in everyday life is close to zero, and attitudes towards the "second domestic language" vary from outright hate to positivity.
I would say that practically all Finns understand a number of basic Swedish expressions (perhaps comparable to how U.K. and U.S. people tend to know random this and that in French or Spanish); very many are able to read simple Swedish texts without difficulty; and a significant minority of "good students" and people living in bilingual coastal areas understand or even speak Swedish so well that it can be really useful.
As for myself, I can read Swedish-language newspapers, but had never encountered mysko.
I'm crying from joy!I left my danmaku home under the bed!Awesome!!Next on the stage we have the duo that has surged to high acclaim...Evening, Gensokyo!! How's the feeling out there!?"Mysko" is Swedish slang for "mystisk(t)", meaning "mysterious", but can colloquially be used as "strange/weird/unusual".The name of the first song is "Anarchy in My Teacup"!Play "Paranoid"! Much like "Free Bird" in North America, "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath is often humorously requested by concert audiences in Finland.Just play the fucking "Paranoid" already...
See this for reference.
