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   Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 05:39:39 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

   #Estonian is infinitely harder than #Polish.

   A gdy sierpiec na niebłoczu łyście,
   W cieniem ciemnie jeno niedośpiewy
   W białodrzewiu ćwirnie i srebliście
   Słowik słowi słowisieńskie ciewy. #Tuwim

   🇪🇪 🇵🇱

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 05:47:37 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Weekend Editor

     @weekend_editor Fins understand Estonian, Estonians don't "understand" Finish. It is sorta like Poles, and Belarus -- if you've been exposed to the language it is different topic, but if not .. might as well be Danes speaking to Swedes .. the Danes grok everything, and the Swedes will go to harms cause of the weirdos that can't count.

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     Weekend Editor (weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 05:47:38 JST Weekend Editor

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     @amszmidt

     Got any basis to compare with Finnish?

     My friends tell me it's fiendishly hard. But some of them are Finns, so they might be pulling my leg.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 05:50:26 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Weekend Editor

     @weekend_editor I am a strange beast ... I'm polish, my mother tongue is polish and despite being in Sweden for 30 years .. I count in Polish. My wife, she is half Estonian .. and the kids go to an Estonian school (and initially kindergarten ...) ... and we live in Sweden .. it was always a comedy show switching between three languages in a single sentence. We mix all three at home, freely .. today, I had to read a bed time story in Estonian without understanding 90%.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 06:18:19 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Weekend Editor

     @weekend_editor Counting and cursing .....

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     Weekend Editor (weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 06:18:21 JST Weekend Editor

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     @amszmidt

     Years ago, I had a colleague from Estonia (Talinn). He kept telling me that your native language was probably the language in which you count money.

     Couple years later, I was in the Netherlands. Guy in a shop spoke absolutely perfect English (probably RP accent from the BBC). But when I paid for something, he made change whispering the count to himself in Dutch.

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     Karsten Johansson (ksaj@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 06:48:23 JST Karsten Johansson

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     @amszmidt Oh ffs Until I noticed the accented c and s, I thought this was rot13 lol.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 06:48:23 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Karsten Johansson

     @ksaj 😂