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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
