Я сижу в кафе, |
Я си-жу в ка-фе, |
©
Yelling Rosa |
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Я сижу в кафе, |
Я си-жу в ка-фе, |
©
Yelling Rosa |
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Kun ovi sulkeutuu
on
avattava uusi ovi
ettei unohdu tuleen
makaamaan.
©
Yelling Rosa
2026-07-25
When the door finally closes,
a
new one must be opened
or stay lying down
in the
gunfire.
© Yelling Rosa
2026-07-25
The Finnish saying
The Finnish saying jäädä tuleen makaamaan literally translates to "to stay lying down in the gunfire". Idiomatically, it means to give up, freeze up, or stay passively paralyzed after running into a setback or crisis instead of keeping moving forward and taking action. [1, 2, 3]
Origin and Context
Military roots: The phrase comes from military vocabulary and was famously popularized by Väinö Linna in his classic 1954 war novel Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier), where an officer orders troops not to freeze or lie down under fire. [1]
Modern usage: Today, it is used broadly in everyday life—often in the negative (ei saa jäädä tuleen makaamaan / "you mustn't stay lying in the fire")—to encourage someone to get back up, face adversity, and fix a difficult situation rather than surrender to despair. [1, 2, 3]
I Wait for Autumn
After winter
comes summer,
But I wait for autumn.
Then proud people
Will be less proud.
©
Yelling Rosa
2026-07-02
Sed autumno expecto
Post hiemem aestas sequitur,
sed autumnum expecto.
Tum
homines superbi
minus superbi erunt.
©
Yelling Rosa
2026-07-02
Here is my latest ballad (2026-03-24). The lyrics and melody are mine. The singer and accompaniment are by Suno.ai.
Since Suno.ai is not a notation program, the melody is sent to it as an
MP3 or wave file. Then Suno.ai is told the intros, solos, and endings.
It does this by browsing its vast music library. Sending your own melody
is not necessary, i.e., Suno.ai can do that too, but your own melody
creates a sense of personality.
I have written the lyrics in Swedish.
Why should I fear death?
I have done my best,
And it has not been enough.
Now is my time to unite
With the eternal voidness
From the earthly voidness
without opening my eyes.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-06-29
Note
Many people look down on people who use AI programs. Yet in my case, when I give the melody and the lyrics, I do the same things as when I have gone into the studio and sung the vocal part myself. The studio musicians have done the arrangements. I myself draw the line at using AI without any of my own input.
Many famous poets have had their poems composed, but not unknown ones. AI gives this kind of opportunity, which is a good thing. The art world is a rough battlefield, where grants and other opportunities are obtained through relationships. People who have come forward in this way are not necessarily better than those who have been left behind. Of course, when it comes to superior talent, he cannot be sidelined even if he has no relationships.
Here are the types of words and commands Suno.ai accepts in square brackets:
1. Song Structure & Sections
These tags help organize the flow of the song.
[Intro] / [Instrumental Intro][Verse] / [Verse 1], [Verse 2][Chorus] / [Chorus 1][Pre-Chorus][Bridge][Chorus: Interlude][Drop] / [Epic Drop] / [Beat Drop][Solo] / [Guitar Solo] / [Saxophone Solo][Outro] / [Fade Out] / [End][Interlude] 2. Vocal Styles & Techniques
These instruct the AI on how to deliver the vocals.
[Whispered] / [Whispered Intro][Spoken] / [Spoken Word] / [Conversational][Shouted] / [Gang Shouts] (common in punk/rock)[Screamed] / [Harsh Vocals][Ad-libs] / [Vocal Ad-libs][Harmony] / [Layered Vocals][Female Vocal] / [Male Vocal] (to switch singers)3. Instrumentation & Vibe
These define the musical accompaniment for specific sections.
[Acoustic] / [Piano Only][Heavy Guitar] / [Distorted][Drum Break][Bass Drop][Atmospheric][Fast Tempo] / [Slow]4. Advanced/Combined Tags
You can combine instructions for more precise control.
[Verse 2 - Emotional, soft][Chorus - High energy, piano][Bridge - Distorted spoken]Best Practices for Brackets
[ ] for structure/instrumentation, and parentheses ( ) for vocal delivery or background vocals.Note: While Suno often obeys these tags, they are not guaranteed to work 100% of the time, functioning more as suggestions to the AI model.
I wrote this lullaby in the early 1990s. I was on tour as a troubadour in Finnish Lapland. During that trip, I had several gigs that also featured Sámi songwriters. They sang their own songs and traditional yoiks. One morning after waking up in a motel, I grabbed my guitar, and the song, with its lyrics, was born from that sitting. At some point, I was shown a video of reindeer herds being released from their pens into the wild. At that time, the light was on its side because the sun had barely risen above the horizon and was quickly disappearing from view. There is a season in Lapland when the sun does not rise at all, but that phase was behind us. Other elements came from my dream, where I carried my son in my arms on the fells. When he was a baby and a toddler, I was a stay-at-home dad when I was not on gigs.
There is no such thing as death. There is only life, passing from one
person to another. What we call death is the end of a person’s life, not
the beginning of death. For death to exist, it must contain something.
But it is nothing, not even emptiness.
© Yelling Rosa
2026-04-19
Miehet lähtevät purjehtimaan,
sillä aavalla merellä
he tuskat ja murheet
unohtavat.
© Yelling Rosa
2026-03-09
Men go sailing,
because on the open sea
they forget sorrows
and worries.
© Yelling Rosa
2026-03-09
The Latin saying "Vela ventis dare" literally means to give the sails to the wind.
| Latino sine flexione | |
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| Interlingua | |
| IL de A.p.I. | |
![]() Interlingua sign in 1911 | |
| Pronunciation | ['latino 'sine 'fleksione] |
| Created by | Academia pro Interlingua under chairmanship of Giuseppe Peano |
| Date | 1887–1914[1] |
| Setting and usage | International auxiliary language |
| Purpose | Constructed language
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Early form | |
| Latin alphabet | |
| Sources | Based on Latin, but influenced by ideas in other auxiliary languages |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Academia pro Interlingua (–1945), works by Peano and ApI (eg Discussiones 1909–1915) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ilc (rejected) |
| Glottolog | None |
| IETF | la-peano |
| This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. | |
Latino sine flexione ("Latin without inflections"), Interlingua de Academia pro Interlingua (IL de ApI) or Peano's Interlingua (abbreviated as IL) is an international auxiliary language compiled by the Academia pro Interlingua under the chairmanship of the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932) from 1887 until 1914. It is a simplified version of Latin, and retains its vocabulary.
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Here is a special Christmas postcard for you, the readers of my language blog. The card has a Christmas greeting in Ingrian, Portuguese, Dutch, and Ido. I chose Ido and Ingrian because this blog has published articles discussing these languages . Portuguese and Dutch are included because readers of this blog also visit from Holland and Brazil. You can find English, Spanish, Italian, and German Christmas cards at https://yerosacom.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/free-xmas-cards-2025-in-other-languages-than-english/. Feel free to send the attached card to your friends and relatives.
Thank you to all who visited here, and I hope to see you again next year.
If you have time, go listen to the popular Finnish Christmas carol on YouTube, performed in English. I have translated the Finnish words into English. You’ll find the song at https://youtu.be/9U2PAY_hXfE
Omatunto
ihmiskunnan liekki,
kun se sammuu
jäljellä on pimeä
eläinkunta
© Yelling Rosa
2025-09-30
Conscience,
the flame of humanity,
If it goes out,
the darkness of
cockroaches
rules the world.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-09-30
The Rotten Apple
Mahorkat ovat loppuneet.
Pittää männä lafkaa.
Sit ku miä oon tult
lafkast kottii,
miä sytän lampin,
söön kaakkuu
ja joon kohvii.
Ono kumma,
jot lanterna ei puttoo
tuulees allaa
krintsan pinnalle.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-07-17
THIS PHOTO IS FROM WIKTIONARY
a pack of smoking makhorka
makhorka (usually uncountable, plural makhorkas)
(chiefly Russia) A coarse, strong type of tobacco (Nicotiana rustica), especially grown in Russia and Ukraine.
(Nicotiana rustica): Aztec tobacco, mapacho, wild tobacco
I have run out of mahorka.
I have to go to the store.
When I get back home,
I'll light a lamp,
eat barley bread,
and drink coffee.
Strangely, the lantern doesn't fall
onto the porch in the wind.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-07-17
Varför skulle jag frukta döden?
Jag har gjort mitt bästa,
och det har inte varit tillräckligt.
Nu är det min tid att förena mig
med det eviga tomrummet
från det jordiska tomrummet
utan att öppna ögonen.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-06-29
Here, you have four of my poems.
The sad life is entertaining us.
If it didn't that, we would be
Always deep under the ground.
The real smart things are
More cunning than our need
To fix what is not broken.
© Yelling Rosa
2018-05-07
Too much light
For the dark soul
Makes an explosion.
© Yelling Rosa
2018-07-08
Under the new bridges
Is the old story lurking:
Those who are shouting,
Don't hear.
© Yelling Rosa
2017-08-13
It's sweet to listen to music in peace
and forget about the outside world.
People often preach that each person
is the master of their own fortune.
Does the African mother
who keeps a hungry child on her lap
believe in this?
It would have been sweet to listen to music
in peace and forget the outside world,
but I can only burn the candle.
© Yelling Rosa
2017-10-17
Mitt hjärta är i oro
Mitt hjärta är i oro.
Jag vill gå till skogen
där kan jag vara mig själv,
vara i fred från människors
galenskap.
Människornas lösningar
är obehagliga
och deras öron
är döva.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-05-19
My heart is troubled.
I want to go to the forest
where I can be myself,
be at peace from the madness
of people.
People’s solutions
are unpleasant
and their ears
are deaf.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-05-19
Ko inhimiin vanhaks tulloo
Ko inhimiin vanhaks tulloo,
silmät vässyyt väsymistä,
käet
heikoiks käyvvät.
Meeli alkaa muissois harpata.
Rakkahus
kukat valeloo,
pöllyt pyyhkii patrettiloist.
Syän ystävät
toivoo
unneen iänikkäisee.
©
Yelling Rosa
2025-02-17
When Human Grows Old
When human grows old,
Eyes grow tired
And hands become
weak.
The mind begins to wander back in time.
Love waters
the flowers,
Wipes the dust from the photographs.
The heart
wishes friends
In eternal sleep.
©
Yelling Rosa
2025-02-17
Leonardo.Ai generated the Human DNA images in this article.
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Ingrian |
English |
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Höö evät koole |
They are immortal |
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Höö, |
They |
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© Yelling Rosa | |
Ingrian |
English |
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Nöyrä syän |
A Humble Heart |
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Nöyrä syän |
A humble heart |
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© Yelling Rosa | |
Una rosa sanguinis
ab ovo usque ad mala
comes fidelis
est.
Ille pulsat sine
praecepto
aliter
quam cerebra.
Eos
docere tenemus.
©
Yelling Rosa
2024-12-13
One rose of blood
From
cradle to grave
Is
a faithful companion.
It beats without command,
Which
the brain does not do.
We must teach gray
Thinking
cells.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-12-13
Jottai se miäki ymmärrän.
Miun pittää läätä messän kera.
Hääki tarvitsoo rakkautta
niku kaik elon olendit.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-11-19
Ingrian |
English |
Interlingua |
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Jottai se miäki ymmärrän. |
Something I do understand. |
Qualcosa io comprende. |
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Miun pittää läätä messän kera. |
I must talk with the forest. |
Io debe parlar con le foreste. |
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Hääki tarvitsoo rakkautta |
It needs love |
Il ha besonio de amor |
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niku kaik elon olendit. |
like all living creatures. |
como tote le creaturas vivente. |
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© Yelling Rosa 2024-11-19 |
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In 1894, L. L. Zamenhof, who was the original creator of the constructed language Esperanto, proposed a complete series of reforms to Esperanto (in other words, an Esperantido). It is notable as the only complete Esperantido to be authored by Zamenhof himself, and it was presented in response to various reforms that had been proposed by others since the language's publication in 1887. The project was eventually rejected by the language's speakers, and subsequently even by Zamenhof himself. Some of the proposed reforms were used in another constructed language, Ido, beginning in 1907.
Read the rest of this article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1894_Esperanto_reform_project
Felica Kristnasko
I've
created a free Christmas postcard in the Ido language for you.