Suitable or appropriate?
RE: Tampere Go Club Evening at Pub Konttori
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If you look at below dictionary definition of matter-of-factly, you might conclude that it is very close to the meaning of asiallinen in the following sentences, for example:
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Ok. Matter-of-factly. I'll remember.
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"Correct" or "proper" would actually sound better than "matter-of-factly" ;).
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Maybe. "Matter-of-factly"is a rarely used word. Anyway, the crux of the matter is that there is no word whose meaning and connotations precisely match those of "asiallinen" in the English language. Words are not the strings or letters or the sounds that are used to signify them. They are abstractions whose meaning is not just in their relations with other words but the contexts in which they are used.
"Correct" and "proper" have Finnish translations that better match their meaning than "asiallinen", namely "korrekti, oikea" and "kunnollinen". In both, there is an element of moral judgement involved. When you are being "asiallinen", you deal strictly in fact and the task at hand
and nothing else, casting any moral judgement aside.
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Pertinent or cogent.
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Both capture the meaning of "asiallinen" partly.
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Maybe, but "pertinently" is only translated into "asiallisesti":
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Pertinent could maybe be better translated as "asiaankuuluva". The Finnish word "asiallinen" is most often used to describe a neutral and dispassionate attitude as in "asiallinen suhtautumistapa" or an action following such an attitude "asiallinen kysymys". Its opposite, "asiaton" not only carries same meaning as "irrelevant" but "improper" and/or "offensive" as well.
I think the bottom line is that you cannot always translate everything with high precision.
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I checked one of my English books and matter-of-factly was translated as asiallisesti
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Yes, you're right. It goes like this.
Noun: matter of fact
Adjective: matter-of-fact
Adverb: matter-of-factly
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