@testeronious to LinuxEnglish • 7 months ago“I was thrown out of fourth grade because I couldn’t write my own name, and it’s all been downhill from there” - Linus Torvaldswww.yarchive.netmessage-square8arrow-up185arrow-down17cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up178arrow-down1external-link“I was thrown out of fourth grade because I couldn’t write my own name, and it’s all been downhill from there” - Linus Torvaldswww.yarchive.net@testeronious to LinuxEnglish • 7 months agomessage-square8cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish21•7 months agoCant write finnish but fucking C… what a man
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•edit-27 months agoAs an Estonian, I’d rather write C than Finnish too. Finnish just looks like you’re writing Estonian, but had a stroke.
minus-squarepalordrolaplinkfedilink4•7 months agoThat probably works for any closely related language pairs. Finns thinking the same of Estonian, some English folks definitely formed that opinion of Scots the first time seeing it in print, Polish and Czech, etc. etc.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoProbably. Tbf with Estonian and Finnish, it’s like they took what was weird about our language and amplified it lol Umlauts everywhere!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-27 months agoEven young children learn to write a, b, and c.
Cant write finnish but fucking C… what a man
Well, that’s just one letter.
As an Estonian, I’d rather write C than Finnish too. Finnish just looks like you’re writing Estonian, but had a stroke.
That probably works for any closely related language pairs. Finns thinking the same of Estonian, some English folks definitely formed that opinion of Scots the first time seeing it in print, Polish and Czech, etc. etc.
Probably.
Tbf with Estonian and Finnish, it’s like they took what was weird about our language and amplified it lol
Umlauts everywhere!
Even young children learn to write a, b, and c.