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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It is the same word

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Estonians found a way to communicate without sex, future, articles or prepositions. Oh, sounds like a super easy language to learn with fewer things in it, right? Fuck you, we have 14 cases so we could tell foreigners from native speakers by how they confuse genitive and partitive, two of the most basic cases. And then most cities, towns, villages you’d go to use illative (“into”) to say “I’m going to X”, but some will be allative (“onto”) and there’s no rule for it, so people from other parts of the country might not know it and it’ll sound super weird.

    And I still find English to be the weird language. Just look at the different words written as “lead”. Why are they pronounced so differently?! Nothing is pronounced as written.

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  • peacepath@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It is not an ambiguity, it is a remaining from a popular way to count. Just as you may count per hundreds and 4 100 sounds like 400, and means it. But you may also count things by dozen (most likely for eggs…).

    Yet you may use “octante” (beligum) or “huitante” (swiss) instead of “quatre-vingt”.

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