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aboutfinnish: Add some humorous example links
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rkdarst committed Sep 17, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -45,6 +45,20 @@ Because of this, it takes some effort to be able to separate the words
about. When listening, this is even harder because of the way that
Finnish flows together.

People also use this to make fun of Finnish: "oh, there are so many
words": `ex1`_, `ex2`_, `ex3`_, and so on. But this is missing the
point: Finnish is syntethic, and the concept of these being different
words isn't quite right. They are a base modified by different stems,
the equivalent of different words in other languages. You can't
evaluate Finnish by the criteria of other languages. Instead, you
will learn how to break these down into their component pieces to
understand them (and really, all these examples are highly
pathological).

.. _ex1: https://imgur.com/QFm6SCE
.. _ex2: https://imgur.com/gallery/NdqH7
.. _ex3: https://imgur.com/JoM4aLU

The grammar of Finnish is very different. If you know English, and
are learning something like Spanish, it is relatively straightforward:
you can substitute one word for another, and do some various small
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are turned into syllables. For example, "tuli" is "fire", and "tuuli"
is "wind". In English, letters don't necessarily mean anything about
the pronunciation, but in Finnish pronunciation is essential.
Jokes: `ex4`_.

.. _ex4: https://imgur.com/yReMTKL

Finally, I believe that in many cases Finnish is hard to learn because
of the way it is taught. In many cases, it is thought as a "total
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