Comments on: Lisää löylyä?

Lisää löylyä?

Wolfdog — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:18:04 -0800

Mobile saunas from around the world (that is, "Finland and a few other places".) I was particularly taken with the Saab conversion.

By: Popular Ethics

Popular Ethics — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:26:22 -0800

Haven't seen a mobile sauna, but I did spend some time in a Car Pool. Which was actually driveable - it used the rad to warm the water. Sadly the carpool was lost to politics and in-fighting. Ah, undergrad.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:02:32 -0800

The sauna Saab is a work of art! Fun post Wolfdog. A funky mobile sauna. This personal cooker is portable. A vintage mobile sauna.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:07:01 -0800

A previous lisää löylyä MeFi post.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:21:02 -0800

Oops, thought I searched for everything but I must not have gone back to day one.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:00:44 -0800

That 2003 post's link is dead and it doesn't have the cool photos your post does. :) I just Googled " lisää löylyä" because I wondered what the hell does that mean, lol, and found it, oddly, on MetaFilter, but no translation. Does it mean sauna in Finnish or Swedish?

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:15:04 -0800

Löylyä is that steamy warmth that comes off the stove when you throw water on it. "Lisää löylyä!" is "More water on the stove!"

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:11:07 -0800

Oh neat! Thanks for the nice translation. How would "lisää löylyä!" sound phonetically?

By: Shike

Shike — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:50:58 -0800

not sure about that one, but please take note of the proper pronunciation of "sauna." is is sow-na, not sah-na.

By: taursir

taursir — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:49:16 -0800

Nickyskye, it's like the name Lisa, but the ää is the same as that in the word bad (at least if you speak american english); as for löylyä, well, that's not so easy to describe, in terms of american-englishish phonetics. ö is approximantly the same as the german ö, or near the vowel in yeux 'eyes' in French. y is similar to german ü, or french u, as in tu 'you'. IPA: ['lisæ: 'løylyæ]. There's also another phrase which uses those ö and y sounds: lyö löylyä which is something about tossing water on the furnacey thing.

By: hoskala

hoskala — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:23:39 -0800

Löylynlyömää lässytystä...

More floating saunas.

By: longbaugh

longbaugh — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:11:46 -0800

A fun fact I discovered whilst reading up on the super amazing Finns - they love their saunas so much that they used to build them just behind the front lines during the Winter War and Continuation War against Soviet Russia.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:05:59 -0800

Thanks taursir. :) hoskala, that's one beautiful floating sauna. they used to build them just behind the front lines during the Winter War and Continuation War against Soviet Russia. amazing.