> "kuusi palaa"
Can we get a bit more detail here? Are those variations on pronunciation? How does a native Finn able to infer the correct meaning?
Can we get a bit more detail here? Are those variations on pronunciation? How does a native Finn able to infer the correct meaning?
The only way to infer what's meant is from context.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...
Interestingly when I showed the actual text to my wife, who is Chinese, she didn't understand what was funny about it until I asked her to read it to me, when she burst out laughing. That's when I found out she doesn't sub-vocalise, where I do all the time.
On the other hand, most of the characters used to be pronounced differently when they were still commonly used as individual words, so the poem only works because it mixes modern pronunciation with classical grammar.