Comment on Noses run, feet smell

• Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  English is stupid…

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  • smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bingo.

    English is the drunken bully of languages, stealing words and claiming them as its own.

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    • mienshao@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nope—that’s how all language work. Like go study Japanese and see how many words they “stole” from English 🤣

      And linguistic purism is generally associated with nationalism. See the GOP’s recent English-only policies as an example. No bueno.

      Languages mixing and ‘stealing’ from each other is a good thing. One human race. ✌️

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      • smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re not wrong at all. My favourite Japanese word is “gu-rey-pu-fu-root-su” for grapefruit. Like, bro, copy off me but don’t make it look like you’re copying. 😂

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• SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Homonyms.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m binym myself.

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