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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Sorry, are you asking how our average person handles the language?

    Native Finnish speakers seem to suck at compound words and punctuation on average, old and young.

    People learning Finnish differ as they seem to (someone learning please speak up) struggle with double consonants, declension (had to google that word) and how spoken language is different from written official rules. I think all of these are mostly automatic to someone with Finnish as a mother tongue.








  • “Bonfire!” works as a yell and for the ending in a poetic or lyrical style.

    “The size of the bonfire” is wrong.

    But we could add “Kokon koko?” to include it. Or even “Kokon koko koko?” for “The total/full size of the bonfire?” or “Koko kokon koko?” as in “The size of the whole bonfire?”

    Edit for a narrative:

    Kokko, kokko!

    Kokko?

    Kokoo kokoon koko kokko.

    Koko kokkoko?

    Koko kokko.

    Kokon koko koko?

    Kokon kokoinen kokko, Kokko.


    And in English:

    Kokko, the bonfire!

    The bonfire?

    Gather together the whole bonfire.

    The whole bonfire?

    The whole bonfire.

    The total size of the bonfire?

    A bonfire-sized bonfire, Kokko.