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^ That is cute, thanks Skilpadde.

In English, we commonly call rubella "German measles".

Glad you both liked it

Moomin, I didn't know that, so now I just picked up a new term. Thanks! I didn't know there was more words for it than rubella.
I had no idea why we call it red dogs here. It makes no sense, so I looked it up on Wikipedia and other lexicons, but there was nothing about it there. I found one entry about it on NHI saying that it comes from Old Norwegian and Latin. Latin: ruber (red). Old Norwegian: hundr (rash, utslett in modern Norwegian, a word that can also be a verb in imperative and then it means exterminate; some words have more than one meaning). Mystery solved, I guess.
And so I learned an old word too.

Well, according to the companion book to "All cats have Aspergers", all dogs have ADHD.
My collie wasn't hyperactive though... He didn't read the book, I guess.

Moomingirl, I may have posted a video on the Finnish folk song Ievan polkka. It is surprisingly popular in Japan and there are several Hatsune Miku parodies of it, for example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57mkfFdvREw

Now, I came across of a parody of a parody, this Lithuanian group made me laugh. Honest.

Barking cat

Henri the Cat. Worth watching.

Henri is about as depressing as Marvin The Paranoid Android.

@ Krabo re Ievan Polkka - LOL! I love that I know Finnish 'culture' enough to get this joke, and find it funny. I don't know your thoughts, but for Lithuanians I thought their Finnish pronounciation at the beginning sounded pretty good.

@ Skilpadde. That reminded me of this:


@ Krabo re Henri - that was great French practice, thanks. That's just about the speed that I can understand at the moment.

^

I have posted the following video before. Just in case you might have skipped it, here it is again. Please, let me introduce to you Tarja Turunen with her mystical and perfect voice.

Finnish (and in fact, any language) musical suggestions always gratefully received.

Task accepted. Please, meet Mieskuoro Huutajat. They are unique.

Remember the Ievan Polkka? This Chinese version is beyond description.

^ Unique is right. Although it doesn't surprise me, knowing that the are Finnish.

Chinese version - yup, strange.

generic eastern fantasy video game characters, they look like to me.

^ Not just the characters, their choreography is polished.

That's the difference between well-trained dancers and well-programmed ones.

But thanks to Krabo, I've now got this song stuck in my head.
I even found one by Hatsune Miku. Good grief!