Comment on Why words like 'okay' and 'taxi' are universally understood across the world but survival related ones like 'help', 'water', 'food' remained nation specific?

jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s why every European language just slaps an accent mark on the word “airplane” because we invented the tech and created the name, so they just adapted it to fit the pronunciation of the phonetics in their own vocabulary.

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  • zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    𝕱𝖑𝖚𝖌𝖟𝖊𝖚𝖌 would like a word

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    • TanakaAsuka@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Honestly I can’t think of a single European language where it is the case. German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Basque… none of them sound like aeroplane.

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      • zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean, Spanish uses el avión and el aeroplane and Italian is l’ aero which is just short for l’ aeroplano. Gotta give him that.

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      • DrQuint@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m wondering why they didn’t choose a word like Television for this.

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    • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Germany is the red headed step child lol

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      • JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The Deutsch and their « zeugs  and Dings »

        I love that a culture so associated with attention to detail and precision engineering is just like « flugzeug, fuerzeug, schlagzeug, schreibzeug… »

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  • Magister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Clément Ader did it in 1890

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  • Number358@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Russian doesn’t, we call it self flyer (самолёт)

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