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WCDT Strips 3946-3950 (25th February - 1st March 2019)
Tova:
I seriously hope that Finnish does not have a lot of irregular nouns...
oddtail:
--- Quote from: Case on 02 Mar 2019, 12:26 ---https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_grammar
Fifteen cases ... :-o
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At that point, I just had to look up what language has the most cases. Wikipedia helpfully offered the Tsez language native to Russia, with a bit over 10 000 native speakers:
--- Quote ---There are eight syntactical and a much larger number of locative cases, which distinguish three categories: location, orientation, and direction. Thus, counting the locative and non-locative cases together, there are a total of 64 cases.
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Is it cold in here?:
Which reminds me of a pun.
So this noun and this verb were flirting in a bar and it's going really well. So well, in fact, that after a while the verb leans over and whispers "Wanna conjugate?".
The noun declined.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Case on 02 Mar 2019, 12:26 ---
--- Quote from: hakko504 on 02 Mar 2019, 10:17 ---Finnish: And now the plural forms....[/spoiler]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_grammar
Fifteen cases ... :-o
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The next door neighbors when I was growing up were Suomi and often spoke Finnish. No wonder I never picked up a word of it.
cesium133:
I once heard a joke somewhere (I forget where), that the reason the Roman Empire went extinct was because Latin was too complicated to learn. I'm sure the original joke is much better than my telling of it...
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