Activity for tommi
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Two reads of "murremestari" In this quiz on Yle's website I met the nice word "murremestari": https://yle.fi/a/74-20058169 Obviously this means one who masters dialects, but in that meaning I pronounce it as "murremmestari". An amusing alternative is pronounce it as written, which I then hear as "Murre-mestari", with "Mur... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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Is obrigado used in case of unclear gender of the author? In Portuguese a male speaker thanks with an «obrigado», while a female with an «obrigada». I am reading a text (some thank you notice for buying some mass-produced industrial product with no obvious single maker) and see the word «obrigado». Can I deduce that the writer of the text is male or is t... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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English dialects and he/she versus it In normed Finnish language hän (he/she) refers to people, while se (it) refers to non-people. However, in spoken language, at least in many dialects, se is used also for people. (Both hän and se are still used, but it is not really relevant here how.) With English I have been taught that it refers... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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What causes people to write compound words as distinct words? In many Germanic and Finno-ugric languages there are many compound words. One does not write "yhdys sana", but rather "yhdyssana". Learning to write these correctly is notoriously hard for people, at least in Finland and Norway; there are mistakes everywhere, even in the simple and systematic cases, ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Why does the dollar sign precede the number in English? In English, at least in USA, people write $3 and mean three dollars (rather than dollars three), while other units are written after the number; no c99, h13, min22, '5, etc. to be seen. Why is it $3 and not 3$? (On some websites there circulates a rumour that this was to stop fraud when writing ch... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Etymology of "ohyra"? Quoting from https://svenska.se/tre/?sok=ohyra&pz=1: > sedan första årtiondet av 1500-talet (Helige mäns lefverne); fornsv. ohyra ’odjur; stor mängd’; urspr. ’ngt otäckt, otrevligt’ See more at SAOB over there. If I am reading that correctly, and my Swedish is not very good, the origin... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Why past tense in imaginative play in Finnish? When playing house with a child, they say things like "Nyt se meni nukkumaan." when they mean that I should have the toy I am playing with go to bed. Similar use of the simple past / imperfect tense is what the child uses all the time in such contexts. ("meni" is past tense and translates to "went... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Why is my Danglish pronunciation much better than Danish? For background, there exists a stereotypical Danish pronunciation of English. "Danglish" can also mean other things, but this is what I am referring to, here. I lived one year in Denmark and can read Danish fluently and manage understanding spoken language, but my pronunciation is very clumsy. I h... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Is Swedish more conservative than Danish and Norwegians? I have read somewhere that Swedish is more conservative than the other continental North Germanic languages, Norwegian and Danish. Clearly Icelandic is more conservative then these all. But is the claim concerning the continental languages correct and why is it so? I could imagine listing a bunch ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Do we want capitalized tags? 1. Having language tags capitalized and others not might increase their visibility or specialness. This would not be a bad thing. 2. English likes to capitalize some strange things such as language names. Since this site seems to be in English, following its convention would be a good idea. 3. ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Structures like "skulle gjort" and "skulle gjøre" I have mostly self-learned Norwegian without much emphasis on grammar. Occasionally I see expressions like "skulle gjort", sometimes with "gjort" replaced by another verb. I would expect to see the verb in infinitive (but without "å") after verbs like "må", "kan", "skal", etc., including different te... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |