Nicknames for your SNUS

[nicotinedream]

I just call it, LIP.

[mwood72]

Re: Nicknames for your SNUS|

I just call it, LIP.

My fix

[Dave***t]

Given that most people I know barely have a clue what snus is, I tend to refer to it as 'you know, that black shit I stick under my lip'.

So I suppose that would mean my nickname for it is black shit!

[blizzardbeast]

^ lol

Anyway, I usually just call it snus, unless I'm trying to get someone to try it. Then I'll call it Swedish Heaven or some other grand sounding thing.

[_CozzU_]

In Finnish: nuusku; called nùùùsku

[Craig de Tering]

Sounds like a juxtapositioning of the four letters in 'snus'.

Hey by the way I'd like to ask the finns on this forum just how well you understand estonian and vice versa. It seems to me that estonian is slightly more legible for indo-european speaker as it has a lot more common loanwords (I've noticed).
I've been googling for comparisons for a long time and haven't found anything on the subject.

[Zero]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages

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They are quite similar from what I can tell. Sort of like Ukranian/Russian or Spanish/Portuguese...probably not very mutually intelligible, but easily learned with a common grammar and root vocabulary. Finnish has a lot of loan words so I would expect that the core, basic words in the language would be similar to Estonian, but many of the richer vocabulary would diverge somewhat...but I'm no expert.

ex : numbers

Finnish : Estonian

yksi : üks
kaksi : kaks
kolme : kolm
neljä : neli
viisi : viis
kuusi : kuus
seitsemän : seitse
kahdeksan : kaheksa
ykdeksän : üheksa
kymmenen : kümme

[ice]

The most popolar nickname for Snus in Finnish is "biitti" ~ [beetty]. Then we have lot of others like: multa (clod), paska (shit), mälli (quid).. but you hear them quite rarely.

I just call it, LIP.

LIP is fun!

[ice]

Hey by the way I'd like to ask the finns on this forum just how well you understand estonian and vice versa. It seems to me that estonian is slightly more legible for indo-european speaker as it has a lot more common loanwords (I've noticed).
I've been googling for comparisons for a long time and haven't found anything on the subject

There is lot in common in these two languages, but still it's not easy to understand Estonian speak. I can pick up few words every now and then, but still I don't understand the meaning. I assume that Estonians understand better Finnish, since Finnish travel a lot to Estonia and Estonian people can see our tv channels too.

Anyway the languages are so similar that it would be quite easy to learn both. At least I think so ?!

[marspatukka]

how well understand estonian and vice versa

There's no way in hell I understand what any estonian dude would speak :lol: . There are tough similarities in finnish and estonian like Zero pointed, but same words can mean very different things. That's why it sounds so similiar to foreigners, to finnish people (or at least to me) estonian sounds like funny spoken finnish . I think that works both ways, or just like ice said many estonians learn finnish because of tourism. The grammar is pretty difficult, so it think it would take as much effort for me to learn estonian as it would take to learn icelandic .

[Craig de Tering]

(Sorry for the off topic stuff)
Funny thing though; as soon as I posted the question above...about three days ago I stumbled across two dedicated language-freak forums where I found my answer (via Google again, go figure).
The mutual understanding FI<->EE is indeed not as clear cut as I'd thought.

If you're curious:
http://home.unilang.org/main/forum/index.php and http://forum.wordreference.com/
...and I thought I *LIKED* languages; there's a user there that seems to be chinese and writes in about 10 wildly different laguages including 2 scandinavian ones. :shock:

Sorta the same feeling an average guitar player gets when he/she sees Yngwie malmsteen or Steve Vai playing I guess. Sell the guitar.

[Andyjeh]

In Finland its: Nuuska (the "official" name), but people use these too: Mälli, biitti, piusa, nölli, hörö, mölli, kekkilä, paska, käisi, snögäri, taikapinaatti, sköddis, pasa, rillu, köntti, nyyssi. käinä, sorvi, rösmä, nupi, hörbä, smägä, pökäle, nötkötti, jölli, limppu and my favourites kölli/gölli and köbler.

Listed just a few names :wink:

And the portioner tool:

Jäätyökalu, ruutta, pilli, riuku, tykki.

[SouthTexas]

Worm dirt. Sweedish mouth mud. My little Sweedish secret. When I need a fix i always think of the term as "getting right with God."

[Sjef]

I call it høne, prell, or the one I use most is neva

[TBonehawk]

simplicity

My wife has a hard time remembering 'snus', so she calls it 'dip'. To counteract this, I refer to it as 'my tobacco'. In my mind, it's 'snusi', pronounced (only mentally, mind you) as 'snoosey'. And, yes, since I prefer loose, it's 'lusi snusi' (they rhyme). I think of a pris as a 'cubito' (I 'm a Spanish Ph.D. student and Spanish teacher) or 'piramide', both of which roughly represent the form once in a pris. I use a two-finger method (index and thumb of each hand opposed) to get it packed more firmly. Works for me!

TBone