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feat(quotes): add finnish quotes (imtone1) #4759

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Added finnish quotes. Quotes are from classic Finnish literature Kalevala and Tuntematon sotilas.

Checked that there are finnish language but there wasn't any finnish quotes yet.

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Miodec commented Nov 3, 2023

Please add quote translations so i can verify their content.

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imtone1 commented Nov 3, 2023

Please add quote translations so i can verify their content.

Here is a translation. Although Kalevala is read in finnish schools, it's written in a very old finnish dialect and so it is hard to translate precisely. I translated it all with deepL translation and it is more or less accurate but very painfull to read in english. :)

"quotes":[
{
    "text": "My mind made me, my brain thought me, to sing my way, to say my sa'an, to sing my family tune, to sing my species tune.",
    "source": "Kalevala",
    "id": 1,
    "length": 128
},
{
    "text": "Words melt in my mouth, words fall from my lips, fall on my tongue, fall on my teeth.",
    "source": "Kalevala",
    "id": 2,
    "length": 88
},
{
    "text": "My dear brother, my little brother, my beautiful plant companion! Come and sing with me now, let me tell you what we've been up to, we've been down to two!",
    "source": "Kalevala",
    "id": 3,
    "length": 139
},
{
    "text": "We seldom meet together, we get each other on these poor frontiers, in the polar lands of the North.",
    "source": "Kalevala",
    "id": 4,
    "length": 101
},
{
    "text": "We shake hands, fingers interlaced, to sing good songs, to sing parahia, to hear those golden words, those hymns of the way of the mind, in the youth rising, in the people cassowing: those received words, hymns tuned from the belt of old Väinämöisen, from under the stubble of Ilmarinen, from the way of the bald Kaukomieli, from the bow of Joukahaisen, from the fields of the North, from the Kalevala's Kankahki.",
    "source": "Kalevala",
    "id": 5,
    "length": 368
},

{
"text": "My grandfather used to sing them when he was bleeding his axe; my mother taught them when she was weaning her baby, my glass on the floor in front of me while my knee was spinning, my milk glass as a bad one, my buttermilk glass as a little one.",
"source": "Kalevala",
"id": 6,
"length": 188
},
{
"text": "Sampo lacked no words, nor Louhi no plumb line: in words Sampo grew old, Louhi in plumb lines, in hymns Vipunen died, Lemminkäinen in playthings.",
"source": "Kalevala",
"id": 7,
"length": 147
},
{
"text": "There are other words, too, that have learned problems: tempom from the road, cut from the heather, pluck from the rushes, pull from the waters, rub the hay from the head, tear from the track, while I am in the shepherd's field, in the pastures of the cattle, on the metal hogs, on the golden cows, in the wake of the black wall, with Kimmo's bush.",
"source": "Kalevala",
"id": 8,
"length": 312
},
{
"text": "I sing a good song, I sing a beautiful song, I sing a beautiful song, I sing a beautiful song, I sing a beautiful song, I sing a beautiful song, I sing a beautiful song, I sing a beautiful song, I sing a beautiful song.",
"source": "Kalevala",
"id": 9,
"length": 91
},
{
"text": "I heard it said, I knew the hymn to be sung: alone we have the nights to come, alone the days to dawn; alone was Väinämöinen born, the everlasting roses appeared from the slender bearer, from the mother of Ilmattare.",
"source": "Kalevala",
"id": 10,
"length": 189
},

{
"text": "There was an impi, girl of a wind, slender beautiful girl. She wore weeks of sanctity, age all the splendor of age without in long yards, on flat earth",
"source": "Kalevala",
"id": 11,
"length": 139
},
{
"text": "The sturdy old Väinämöinen walked in his mother's care for thirty years, even in winter, on those treacherous waters, on those wicked waves.",
"source": "Kalevala",
"id": 12,
"length": 135
},
{
"text": "Sowing lands, sowing lands, sowing swamps, sowing ploughs, sowing ploughs, sowing ploughs.",
"source": "Kalevala",
"id": 13,
"length": 92
},
{
"text": "He sowed the hills into pines, the hills into spruces, the hills into heather, the hollows into young water",
"source": "Kalevala",
"id": 14,
"length": 99
},
{
"text": "Whoever took a branch from it, took eternal happiness; whoever folded the top, folded eternal magic; whoever cut the leaf, cut eternal love.",
"source": "Kalevala",
"id": 15,
"length": 151
},
{
"text": "The sturdy old Väinämöinen lived out his days on those Väinölkä farms, the Kalevala's cemetery.",
"source": "Kalevala",
"id": 16,
"length": 87
},
{
"text": "There came a young Joukahainen, driving on the road against the road: the sledge took the end of the sledge, the hail stuck to the chaff, the elongated chains interfered with the western chains, and the gadget took the nose of the gadget.",
"source": "Kalevala",
"id": 17,
"length": 152
},
{
"text": "The eyes are so crooked that on Wednesday you can see both Sundays.",
"source": " Vainö Linna - The Unknown Soldier ",
"id": 18,
"length": 73
},
{
"text": "In three hours we leave. Those who don't have a white handkerchief should get one.",
"source": "Vainö Linna - The Unknown Soldier",
"id": 19,
"length": 93
},
{
"text": "Captain, as far as I can see, lice cannot be blamed for this dirt, because it is not a cause, but a consequence. Unless I have misdirected the thought.",
"source": "Vainö Linna - The Unknown Soldier",
"id": 20,
"length": 161
},
{
"text": "I'll see that girl's beautiful eyes before my mouth sometime.",
"source": " Vainö Linna - The Unknown Soldier ",
"id": 21,
"length": 63
},
{
"text": "I don't understand anything about calories, but my gut understands that they are few",
"source": " Vainö Linna - The Unknown Soldier ",
"id": 21,
"length": 92
}

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Miodec commented Nov 6, 2023

Thanks

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