Curious Omission In New-Style Formats

[Jussi Piitulainen]

Steven D'Aprano writes:

> 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?

Finnish. Karelian enough that it probably is the exact same story.