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minus-squareAggravationstation@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·10 months agoIs this like how Inuits have a bunch of words for snow because they deal with so much of it, Finnish people have different kinds of getting drunk?
minus-squareCornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-210 months agoIt’s more that both languages are agglutanative, which means they can make new words by mashing together existing ones. A concept that would be two words in English, like “day drinking”, would be one in an agglutanative language.
Is this like how Inuits have a bunch of words for snow because they deal with so much of it, Finnish people have different kinds of getting drunk?
It’s more that both languages are agglutanative, which means they can make new words by mashing together existing ones. A concept that would be two words in English, like “day drinking”, would be one in an agglutanative language.