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    Kokko [a rare name]! Gather together [in a spoken language, assemble also works but kind if misses the point of the repetitiveness] the entire bonfire.

    The entire bonfire?

    The entire bonfire, Kokko.

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      That makes more sense to me.

      It’s similar to the English word play buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo

    • I get a slightly different result from DDG translate:

      Bonfire!
      Assemble the whole bonfire.
      The size of the bonfire?
      The whole bonfire, the bonfire.

      Although, it’s even better with Kokko being a rare name;

      Kokko!
      Assemble the whole bonfire.
      The size of the bonfire?
      The whole bonfire, Kokko.

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        “Bonfire!” works as a yell and for the ending in a poetic or lyrical style.

        “The size of the bonfire” is wrong.

        But we could add “Kokon koko?” to include it. Or even “Kokon koko koko?” for “The total/full size of the bonfire?” or “Koko kokon koko?” as in “The size of the whole bonfire?”

        Edit for a narrative:

        Kokko, kokko!

        Kokko?

        Kokoo kokoon koko kokko.

        Koko kokkoko?

        Koko kokko.

        Kokon koko koko?

        Kokon kokoinen kokko, Kokko.


        And in English:

        Kokko, the bonfire!

        The bonfire?

        Gather together the whole bonfire.

        The whole bonfire?

        The whole bonfire.

        The total size of the bonfire?

        A bonfire-sized bonfire, Kokko.

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            31 year ago

            Check out ChatGPT or deepl if you need Finnish translated. Of course this kind of wordplay is quite difficult to get right

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              i fed the text to chatgpt and it did a very good but not quite perfect job: "Bonfire, bonfire!

              Bonfire?

              Gather together the entire bonfire.

              The entire bonfire?

              The entire bonfire.

              The size of the whole bonfire?

              The size of the bonfire, Bonfire."