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HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You got that backwards.

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  • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do I ? Emigrating is going away, immigrating is coming in, right?

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    • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Right, so you’re emigrating from America and you’re immigrating to, say, Zimbabwe.

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      • Malfeasant@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s both, depending on perspective. You emigrate from America to Zimbabwe according to other Americans. To Zimbabweans, you have immigrated to Zimbabwe from America.

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    • GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So in other words emigrating from and immigrating to, i.e. your initial comment is backwards.

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, it’s why your country has plenty of immigrants, but you never seem to run into any of your emmigrants. Or for the linguistic reason i- as a prefix can mean into and e- as a prefix can mean out of in latin, coming from the Latin words in and ex meaning in and out

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      • SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        English isn’t my first language, but can you even fix the prepositions to the verbs like that. Wouldn’t you have to define your frame of reference? I’d say it shifts with your perspective.

        Example: I’m in Homeyland and there are migrants, who are emigrating from the Faraway Islands and immigrating to Homeyland.

        When I’m in the Faraway Islands, I’d say the same people are emigrating to Homeyland. While Homeylanders coming here are immigrating from Homeyland.

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    • DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You flipped it, that’s the opposite of what you said initially.

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    • pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes, you are correct

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• GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m emigrating from the USA and I am immigrating to Iran.

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• thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Emigrate from, immigrate to.

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