Lisää löylyä?
August 20, 2006 11:18 AM Subscribe
Mobile saunas from around the world (that is, "Finland and a few other places".) I was particularly taken with the Saab conversion.
The sauna Saab is a work of art! Fun post Wolfdog.
A funky mobile sauna.
This personal cooker is portable. A vintage mobile sauna.
posted by nickyskye at 12:02 PM on August 20, 2006
A funky mobile sauna.
This personal cooker is portable. A vintage mobile sauna.
posted by nickyskye at 12:02 PM on August 20, 2006
Oops, thought I searched for everything but I must not have gone back to day one.
posted by Wolfdog at 12:21 PM on August 20, 2006
posted by Wolfdog at 12:21 PM on August 20, 2006
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?
posted by nickyskye at 1:00 PM on August 20, 2006
posted by nickyskye at 1:00 PM on August 20, 2006
Löylyä is that steamy warmth that comes off the stove when you throw water on it. "Lisää löylyä!" is "More water on the stove!"
posted by Wolfdog at 1:15 PM on August 20, 2006
posted by Wolfdog at 1:15 PM on August 20, 2006
Oh neat! Thanks for the nice translation. How would "lisää löylyä!" sound phonetically?
posted by nickyskye at 2:11 PM on August 20, 2006
posted by nickyskye at 2:11 PM on August 20, 2006
not sure about that one, but please take note of the proper pronunciation of "sauna." is is sow-na, not sah-na.
posted by Shike at 5:50 PM on August 20, 2006
posted by Shike at 5:50 PM on August 20, 2006
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.
posted by taursir at 7:49 PM on August 20, 2006
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.
posted by taursir at 7:49 PM on August 20, 2006
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.
posted by longbaugh at 6:11 AM on August 21, 2006
posted by longbaugh at 6:11 AM on August 21, 2006
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.
posted by nickyskye at 10:05 AM on August 21, 2006
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.
posted by nickyskye at 10:05 AM on August 21, 2006
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Which was actually driveable - it used the rad to warm the water. Sadly the carpool was lost to politics and in-fighting. Ah, undergrad.
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