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In 2016, over 300 wild reindeer were killed by a single lightning strike on the Hardangervidda plateau in Norway
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this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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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.