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[โ€“] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They all actually sound quite the same. Some syllables can be stressed to highlight parts of the sentences. YOUR moon vs your MOON

[โ€“] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finnish people gets this imprinted from birth, other people thinks "How can this work? ๐Ÿคจ"

[โ€“] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I had some Scandinavian colleagues joke with me about how their languages have these melodic intonations and we speak everything in monotone and they can't wrap their heads around it.