User:Professor of Finnish Studies

Bench is a very new addition to the world's variety of languages. It is a truly unique language and is popular because of its compatibility with many of the world's leading nations' dialects, thereby easing communcation and generating an overall sense of camaraderie amongst its speakers. Bench originated in the small province of Benchland, a tiny island in the Northern Atlantic Ocean on the same latitude as Finland, in the mid 20th century. Although in American posession, the province had an independent judiciary, legislative, and executive governing system. Ancient religious roots and traditions boast a ruling class called the "IsoMämpi", a kind of shaman whose mannerisms are based upon the early Christian image of the God Chaos. However, as the economy skyrocketed in the 70's and 80's, the traditional lifestyle of the Bench people gradually ceased to exist. In the 90's, the island was re-discovered by a German-American fisherman by the name of Benjaamin S. Gröbman, who took great fascination to the native language. His contemporary modification and revival of this language has been gaining popularity particularly on the East Coast of the United States and western Europe, due to its diverse roots. Nowadays, the language is a living language, changing its structure every day as it grows and incorporates languages from all over the world. It currently withholds elements from English, French, Finnish, German, Spanish, Hebrew, and Russian.

Expressions in Bench:

-"yay!" or "woo-hoo!" : "happi!" (origin: a clueless Bench convert yelled that he was "happy." Unbeknownst to him, "happi" actually means "oxygen" in Finnish, so it permanently borrowed the connotation of the word "happy" while utilizing the Finnish pronounciation.)

to reinforce this expression or to express greater enthusiasm one can add the word "mämpi" to form the phrase:       happi mämpi!