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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • We have a concept of word inflection, which can be used to replace a lot of words that English would use to denote something being a question, ownership markers, causes and effects etc.

    Compounds are fun too, since you can do chaining:

    Viskibassokitaravahvistinpiiri

    Whisky base guitar amplifier circuit


  • Epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydelläänsäkäänköhän.

    It’s the longest word you can make in Finnish without using compounds, which can be infinite length.

    It means, very loosely translated "I wonder if the outcome was a result of their lack of ability to cause others to be disorganized. "

    I know, Finnish is an enviable language.



  • That hiding candy (or other things people wanted) was a universal property of grandmothers.

    English is not my first language, but I had heard the expression “search all nooks and crannies”, but thought the last word was grannies - cranny is an unusual word.

    Now,my own grandmother was in the habit of hiding candy for us to find. I thought the expression existed because all grannies hid things. Search all nooks and grannies!