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Gartenschretel@sh.itjust.works to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 years 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 · 2 years 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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  • Ellvix@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    A community for linguistics humor? Holy shit I’m in.

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

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      Cor anglais is usually said in French. French horn is usually said in English.

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

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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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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autological_word

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      I guess these examples would be heterological.

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