Not Scandi, Nordic....

I am a Finn. I communicate with any Scandinavian in their own language. Of course I am a Scandinavian. If some do not want to belong, it is their own choice and I am fine with that.
 
English is a living language and as such the correct term is whatever is understood by the person hearing or reading it. As of now it's scandi. If tomorrow you guys start calling it flippity flop pork muncher, then that's what I'll call it. Doesn't bother me. Oh, and we're all African so none of this matters.:D
 
timann said:
If we here in Norway talks about it, I guess we would simply call
it a : Vanlig tolleknivegg.
That is the term that SHOULD:D;) be used world wide,
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I have to agree. The knives that find favor among bushcrafters are actually more akin to a tollekniv than a traditional puukko.
 
mete said:
The younger generation is taught to spend lots of time and effort looking for ways to be insulted.And it doesn't matter what your intent is. But I'll continue to use the NON-PC terms as I refuse to bend to the PC Gods. To be PC is to be stupid as it gives up your rights of freedom of speech and thought !
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That's the most lucid thing I heard all day.
Good on ya for telling it like it is.
 
I believe that from now on when you type "ricasso", which is not to be confused with a Spanish notch (which in it's correct native language is called "El Nacho", you have to think "ricatho" as it would be correctly pronounced in proper Castillian. Even though I'm not sure if it is even a Spanish word.

All you nimrods that don't know how to pronounce "choil", it's like the "CH" in "challah".

And what's with Thumb ramps? Is that for thumbs in wheelchairs?

There, my rant is now Finnish.

Marion, please understand that we're all just taking the piss.
 
Well, this is geography news to me. :confused:

I've always understood Scandinavia to mean Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
 
I call it Mora grind .

Are all Scandinavian country's represented in the thread ?

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1234 said:
I call it Mora grind .

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Cool. But "Mora" should use it more often. Every "Mora" I have (seven at this point) came with a secondary bevel.

Or is it "beffel"? :confused:

A rose by any other name . . .


Marion, please understand that we're all just taking the piss.
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Some things just do not translate well. :D:D
 
My mother-in-law is Finnish and I'm sure she considers herself Scandinavian. However saying scandi in reference to a Scandinavian knife is clearly meaningless to her. She calls "scandi's" by one clear and emphatic term - puukko. And it's clear from the way it's said that it's not just a knife... it's a puukko. There are knives - and then there are puukkos. :D

She brought me a puukko back from one of her visits home and apparently she got into a long conversation with her relatives about what makes a puukko a puukko. What makes a bowie a bowie? hmm, the deep philosophical questions of life... ;)

well, I don't know what makes a puukko a puukko, or what makes a bowie a bowie - but I know when I see one! :thumbup:

Funny story she told me about her sister who had a penpal in Japan (back in the days before the Internet). Her sister sent her Japanese penpal a puukko as it's a great sign of friendship in Finland to give someone a knife. She never heard back from her Japanese friend - apparently sending someone a knife in Japan is basically saying that you have brought shame upon yourself and you should commit suicide. :eek:
 
Have a laugh... Take the piss... I say, get humour where you can.

But to be serious for just a second....

I don't really care about political correctness, but I do care about accuracy.

And it would be inaccurate to say that a puukko has a 'scandi' grind.

So maybe I will just call them saber or mora (like has been suggested), because I really dislike the way that word sounds, like I said. Petty, I know, but I am like that sometimes.

Marion
 
Esav Benyamin said:
What about Iceland? :D And what kind of knives do they use in Karelia?
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Nordic countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland. The autonomous regions Faroe islands, Greenland and Aaland are also specifically designated Nordic.

Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

//Rickard//
 
akennedy73 said:
She calls "scandi's" by one clear and emphatic term - puukko.
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With all due respect to your mother-in-law, not all Scandinavian knives are puukkos. The puukko is a distinctly Finnish variation on a theme. There are also the Norwegian and Swedish "tollekniv", and the "samekniv" of Lappland. Slight variations in style are even observable from district to district within respective countries. A person visiting Norway who called a tollekniv a puukko would get some puzzled looks indeed.
 
One of my ancestral lines probably originated in Finland. While I'm interested & casually studying the history of that land, I consider myself an "Unhyphenated American"
Uplander
 
Thomas Linton said:
Cool. But "Mora" should use it more often. Every "Mora" I have (seven at this point) came with a secondary bevel.

Or is it "beffel"? :confused:

A rose by any other name . . .



Some things just do not translate well. :D:D
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I meant classic wood handle Mora , no secondary bevel on those , right ?

Beffel sounds about right ! ;):D

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