English is a strange language.

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English is a strange language.

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

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

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