Re:Finnish breaks natural language processors
by yorwba on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:30AM
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There are only 4 different tones, so by the pigeonhole principle there must be lots of homophones.
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.
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.