While reading Jonathan Clements's adventures in learning Finnish for this #Kalevala day, I learned Japanese has 1194 ways of saying I love you. And a whole lot else, as you're wont to with Clements.

(Serious 'clicking forward to read the next article' warning for anything he writes though.)

https://schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com/2011/09/30/new-finnish-grammar/

http://www.salonfutura.net/2011/02/1778-ways-to-say-i-love-you/

#JonathanClements #Finnish #WordsForSnow #Linguistics #ILoveYou

New Finnish Grammar

One day, I asked my Finnish teacher if it was true that her language had 30 different words for snow. She fixed me with her big, blinky eyes. “No, you poor deluded fool,” she sighed. “We Finns only…

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