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thorny:
Plants don't stay the same shade of green at all growth stages of the plant, or at growth stages of individual leaves. Look hard at almost any green plant, at any time of year: you'll see more than one color there on the same plant, never mind different plants of the same species. We just don't usually look that hard.
JoB:
--- Quote from: thorny on August 31, 2021, 01:58:02 PM ---Plants don't stay the same shade of green at all growth stages of the plant, or at growth stages of individual leaves. Look hard at almost any green plant, at any time of year: you'll see more than one color there on the same plant, never mind different plants of the same species. We just don't usually look that hard.
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... if that were an impediment to identifying the plant in question by its (varying, even per time of day, but still distinct) colors, I'd wonder how we ever came to have a single term "berry", rather than separate words for budding and ripe ones ...
thorny:
I don't think it's an impediment to identifying plants -- but I think it's a reason why trying to have a name for every shade of green wouldn't be much of an advantage in identifying them.
Jitter:
Here’s some Finnish word nerding (I came across this in comments for Chapter 3 of Adventure 1 so this might be a repost)
It’s interesting at least to me as a native Finn. I didn’t know Finnish has verb classes etc. I mean I would probably understood we do if I had given it some thought but. I still don’t know how many an what determines them :)
http://borealexpat.blogspot.com/2014/08/deconstructing-finnish.html
Suominoita:
--- Quote from: Jitter on August 09, 2022, 12:07:19 PM ---Here’s some Finnish word nerding (I came across this in comments for Chapter 3 of Adventure 1 so this might be a repost)
It’s interesting at least to me as a native Finn. I didn’t know Finnish has verb classes etc. I mean I would probably understood we do if I had given it some thought but. I still don’t know how many an what determines them :)
http://borealexpat.blogspot.com/2014/08/deconstructing-finnish.html
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It is nice, though actually the reason that käsi keeps the si here is not because it's a new word- it's just in plural. Stem is käte- though, due the consonant gradation often comes as käde- before ending. Partitive uses consonant stem kät- before -tä ending instead.
Bonus: Derived words: kätevä (handy); käsittää (to understand or should I say to grasp) käsite (concept), kätellä (to shake hands in greeting); kättely (the act of shaking hands; figuratively: right off in the very beginning --- heti kättelyssä). Käsitellä (to handle).
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