@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • edit-216 days agoPeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?message-square137fedilinkarrow-up1167file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink31•16 days agoIf you want to create new words, boy am I excited to tell you about German
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•edit-216 days agoAnd what’s the word in German that means everything you just wrote?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•edit-216 days 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•15 days agoAt this point “creating new words” is faster to say and to write
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•16 days agoTruly unbelievable language. I love it. So easy to start, then you hit that wall of 25-letter words.
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…