Comments on: Leikkiä, Pelata, Soittaa = Play http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2010/07/leikkia-pelata-soittaa-play/ missing acceptable use policy Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:05:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kassen http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2010/07/leikkia-pelata-soittaa-play/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Kassen Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:25:19 +0000 http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/?p=1360#comment-203 Nice. So we may sometimes need to borrow Finish words to clarify things, like borrowing "Libre" to indicate what kind of software we run! That said, it seems extremely leikkiä to intentionally keep the meaning that we intend ambiguous. When I look at improvising jazz musicians I see elements of all three. Good luck with Finish; I could never make heads or tails of it, but I like how it doesn't distinguish gender like many languages. Nice. So we may sometimes need to borrow Finish words to clarify things, like borrowing “Libre” to indicate what kind of software we run!

That said, it seems extremely leikkiä to intentionally keep the meaning that we intend ambiguous. When I look at improvising jazz musicians I see elements of all three.

Good luck with Finish; I could never make heads or tails of it, but I like how it doesn’t distinguish gender like many languages.

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