• weker01@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    This reminds me of how absurd the naming of walkie-talkie is. You can talkie while you walkie.

    As a non native English speaker it took me way too long to actually understand / question the name itself as we use it in German too and I therefore learned the word before I could speak English.

    • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      English is a deeply flawed but intensely playful language. It’s like the weird kid at the playground who’s clearly a mess, but they’re always down for whatever.

      I took a year in German. It’s much prettier than its reputation in pop culture makes it. One of my favourite words is sehnsucht, and I keep trying to get anglophones to steal it.