Mine is people who separate words when they write. I’m Norwegian, and we can string together words indefinetly to make a new word. The never ending word may not make any sense, but it is gramatically correct

Still, people write words the wrong way by separating them.

Examples:

  • “Ananas ringer” means “the pineapple is calling” when written the wrong way. The correct way is “ananasringer” and it means “pineapple rings” (from a tin).

  • “Prinsesse pult i vinkel” means “a princess fucked at an angle”. The correct way to write it is “prinsessepult i vinkel”, and it means “an angeled princess desk” (a desk for children, obviously)

  • “Koke bøker” means “to cook books”. The correct way is “kokebøker” and means “cookbooks”

I see these kinds of mistakes everywhere!

  • EvilHaitianEatingYourCat
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    21 year ago

    English is not my native but I hate how they just assemble bunch of words together to make a single adjective out of it, and you can’t know that until the very end. It gets obvious how stupid this is if I replace all whitespace with commas.

    A desktop, computer, environment.

    Air, missile.

    Air, plane.

    Pocket, record, player.

    Water, beer, pong, table, thong. Okey I made this one up

    • @fubo
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      31 year ago

      This is very popular in newspaper headlines. It’s sometimes called a “noun pile”.

      Times chief editor: Thirteen-word headline noun pile author firing race controversy rebuttal!

      (That is: “The chief editor of the Times has responded in the matter of the firing of headline writer Joe Jones. Jones alleged that his firing from the Times was due to racial bias. However, the chief editor claims in response, that Jones was fired for writing a headline composed of nothing but thirteen nouns.”)


      Beer pong is a party game played on a table. If you put the table in the pool, you can play water beer pong. Attach some floats so it doesn’t sink, and it is a water beer pong table. If you then strap a skimpy swimsuit to that table, the swimsuit is a water beer pong table thong.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        And when beetles battle beetles
        In a puddle paddle battle
        And the beetle battle puddle
        Is a puddle in a bottle
        And the bottle is upon
        A water beer pong table thong
        …they call this
        A tweetle beetle
        Bottle puddle
        Paddle battle muddle
        Water beer pong table thong