Curious Omission In New-Style Formats

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:28 pm, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:

> There's an old story they tell in my family about a child who begs for
> bread from a house. The lady of the house asks if they want a one-hand
> slice (yhe käe leipä) or a two-hand slice (kahe käe leipä), and when the
> poor hungry child asks for the two-hand slice, they get a slice so thin
> that it needs to be held with both hands. That's mean.


Ha, that's exactly the same story my grandmother (who was Estonian-Russian)
used to tell me. If you don't mind me asking, what nationality are you?




-- 
Steven
“Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse.