x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-215 days agoPeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?message-squaremessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down148file-text
arrow-up1118arrow-down1message-squarePeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-215 days agomessage-square144fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremorphballganon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·15 days agoIf you want to create new words, boy am I excited to tell you about German
minus-squarePronell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-215 days agoAnd what’s the word in German that means everything you just wrote?
minus-squareIHateReddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·15 days agoNeologismuskreationsvorfreude would fit too
minus-squareBudgetBandit@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-215 days ago“Verschlimmbessern” is the best one I’ve read somewhere. It’s the result of trying to fix it but you fail and make it worse. Oh, and it’s read as in red, not read as in rede
minus-squareBrickardo@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 days agoAt this point “creating new words” is faster to say and to write
minus-squareOhmsLawn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·15 days agoTruly unbelievable language. I love it. So easy to start, then you hit that wall of 25-letter words.
minus-squareFonzie!@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 days agoNo you hit that wall of der, die, den, das…
If you want to create new words, boy am I excited to tell you about German
And what’s the word in German that means everything you just wrote?
Neuwörtermachenaufgeregheit.
Neologismuskreationsvorfreude would fit too
“Verschlimmbessern” is the best one I’ve read somewhere. It’s the result of trying to fix it but you fail and make it worse.
Oh, and it’s read as in red, not read as in rede
At this point “creating new words” is faster to say and to write
Truly unbelievable language. I love it. So easy to start, then you hit that wall of 25-letter words.
No you hit that wall of der, die, den, das…