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Gartenschretel@sh.itjust.works to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months ago

English is a strange language.

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English is a strange language.

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Gartenschretel@sh.itjust.works to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months ago
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25626225

I know no other languages, so i guess Im just gonna have to roll with it.

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  • Silverchase@sh.itjust.works
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    “loanword” is a calque and “calque” is a loanword.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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      Cor anglais is usually said in French. French horn is usually said in English.

  • LeftRedditOnJul1@lemmy.world
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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autological_word

    • criitz@reddthat.com
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      I guess these examples would be heterological.

  • Ellvix@lemmy.world
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    A community for linguistics humor? Holy shit I’m in.

  • UltraHamster64@lemmy.world
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    Can someone please explain the joke. I already saw this like two times and still can’t figure it out

    • Gartenschretel@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      A word is hyphenated if it is written with a hyphen, i.e. ‘-’. So the joke is the word hypenated is not hyphenated, so non-hyphenated, while the word non-hyphenated is hyphenated.

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        Damn i should’ve just googled the translation correctly lol. Thank you so much

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    Just a PSA that AP dropped the hyphen following most common prefixes

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzM
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    There’s a similar one in Portuguese:

    • [Original] Por que “tudo junto” é separado e “separado” é tudo junto?
    • [Literal translation] Why is “everything together” separated (written as separated words) and “separated” is everything together (written as a single word)?

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