x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-25 months agoPeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?message-squaremessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up1169file-text
arrow-up1169message-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-25 months agomessage-square144fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremorphballganon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·5 months agoIf you want to create new words, boy am I excited to tell you about German
minus-squarePronell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-25 months agoAnd what’s the word in German that means everything you just wrote?
minus-squareIHateReddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·5 months agoNeologismuskreationsvorfreude would fit too
minus-squareBudgetBandit@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-25 months 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-up2·5 months agoAt this point “creating new words” is faster to say and to write
minus-squareOhmsLawn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 months agoTruly unbelievable language. I love it. So easy to start, then you hit that wall of 25-letter words.
minus-squareFonzie!@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months 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…