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Column | Liia Matikainen: Happy New Year and Other Forbidden Phrases – I Couldn't Survive a Day without English

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In late autumn, my friends and I woke up to a phenomenon that has been around for a long time. The so-called brain rot English had taken over our speech. The situation was worrying; we couldn't go a day without speaking English. This couldn't go on. So we set ourselves a challenge. When you use an English word or phrase that could just as easily have been expressed in Finnish, you have to do some tedious housework as a punishment. The punishment…
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In late autumn, my friends and I woke up to a phenomenon that has been around for a long time. The so-called brain rot English had taken over our speech. The situation was worrying; we couldn't go a day without speaking English. This couldn't go on. So we set ourselves a challenge. When you use an English word or phrase that could just as easily have been expressed in Finnish, you have to do some tedious housework as a punishment. The punishment…

·Turku, Finland
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ts.fi broke the news in Turku, Finland on Thursday, December 25, 2025.
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