Thanks for asking, just made me realise why they’ve chosen it.
It’s the Finnish word for a lemming, the animal. And seeing that people using Lemmy are called lemmings…
Lapp is a slur in Norwegian and not much used but I don’t know if it is used as an insult.
Well slurs can be used as insults anyway? My point is that in Finnish “lappalainen” only connotates people living in the North of Finland, Sami or not, and because the term also encompasses not only the north of Finland, but also the larger area, it’d depend on the context, but generally, “lappalainen” as in “lapplander” refers to the Finns, and to refer to the indigenous people you use Sami. But the Sami who live in the north of Finland can thus also be called lapplanders in Finnish, without there being any connotation of a slur. At least I was never aware of the connotation, but to be fair I live in the south of Finland.
No worries!
Lapp is a slur in Norwegian and not much used but I don’t know if it is used as an insult.
What does sopuli mean?
Thanks for asking, just made me realise why they’ve chosen it.
It’s the Finnish word for a lemming, the animal. And seeing that people using Lemmy are called lemmings…
Well slurs can be used as insults anyway? My point is that in Finnish “lappalainen” only connotates people living in the North of Finland, Sami or not, and because the term also encompasses not only the north of Finland, but also the larger area, it’d depend on the context, but generally, “lappalainen” as in “lapplander” refers to the Finns, and to refer to the indigenous people you use Sami. But the Sami who live in the north of Finland can thus also be called lapplanders in Finnish, without there being any connotation of a slur. At least I was never aware of the connotation, but to be fair I live in the south of Finland.