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Warning sign at an old Viking village on Muhu island…
Made me curious to check out this photo shooting range…
9 responses to “subtle persuasion”
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Why estonian repeats letters that much? Do they make a double sound (AA: longer a) or do they make a new sound when put together (AA: "e")?
Or is it just plain stammering? 😉
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Double letters mean longer (vowels) or more stressed (consonants) sounds, Alieness.
One of the distinctive features of Estonian is that it has what is traditionally seen as three (not just two! :)) degrees of phoneme length: short, long, and "overlong", such that IPA /toto/, /to:to/ and /to::to/ are distinct, as are /toto/, /tot:o/, and /tot::o/.
(see more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_language)
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Oh, cool! Thank you very much for the information, I was very curious about it since a long time.
So as in Spanish, it is pronounced the way it´s written. Very well! That is a nice rule we share, don´t you think? You can rely on what you read, don´t need extra neurons to remember how each word sound (almost each one) because they arbitrary follow no pronounciation rules… (read: that´s what I truly hate about English)
I´ll read the wikipedia link. Thanks seikatsu and Eva!
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Did u visit my dear friends Kadi and Tarmo, too in Muhu (Tarmo is the owner of Hotel "Kolm Õde" where u were in Tallinn.Such a beautiful places both Muhu and Saaremaa
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I left unfortunately just day before back to Tallinn 🙁 -
I did not get a chance to visit Tarmo Sumberg on this trip (I did meet him last year though).
Coincidentally, we were travelling with a different Tarmo, who invited us to stay in his summer house, and showed us all of the cool sites (including some hard-to-find Viking boat launches). We also tested his wood-fired hot tub and sauna and swam in the Baltic Sea. What an awesome host!
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