Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 days agoWhat is your favourite fact?message-squaremessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up175file-text
arrow-up175message-squareWhat is your favourite fact?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 days agomessage-square111fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefrank@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·8 days agoEmoticon :) has etymology stemming from emotion + icon. Tis from the 80s, early computer stuff Emoji 😊 is japanese, from 絵文字 which is like, drawing + character, basically. It’s a word MUCH older than computing. False cognates. Sound similar, similar function, nothing to do with each other.
minus-squareHeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 days agoThere’s a :) in a typewritten cookbook I have from the 40s. I don’t know how widespread smileys were back then, but they existed.
minus-squarejxk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 days agoMy favourite false cognate is the plural ending -s in French and English. The English one has Germanic roots, while the French one come from Latin accusative plural -as/-os. They are unrelated etymologically.
minus-squarejxk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 days agoAfter looking it up I have to correct myself, the Germanic plural - s also come from the accusative plural
Emoticon :) has etymology stemming from emotion + icon. Tis from the 80s, early computer stuff
Emoji 😊 is japanese, from 絵文字 which is like, drawing + character, basically. It’s a word MUCH older than computing.
False cognates. Sound similar, similar function, nothing to do with each other.
There’s a :) in a typewritten cookbook I have from the 40s. I don’t know how widespread smileys were back then, but they existed.
My favourite false cognate is the plural ending -s in French and English. The English one has Germanic roots, while the French one come from Latin accusative plural -as/-os. They are unrelated etymologically.
After looking it up I have to correct myself, the Germanic plural - s also come from the accusative plural