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   Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 (blaise@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 07:31:52 JST Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3

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   @rixx I can't explain in detail why Finnish, Estonian and Basque always remind me of Japanese.

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     rixx (rixx@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 07:31:53 JST rixx

     When I want to have a lot of fun, I tell people who are into languages and grammar that I think that Finnish has cases and Hungarian doesn't. We call this a scissor statement, and it's great, because

     · it’s kinda-somewhat representing a majority position
     · it sounds completely stupid, especially when you don't know more than that the two are related, and then it sounds like a real headache when you know that all the ~15 Finnish cases have a clear relative in Hungarian.

     Fun!