• SilverchaseEnglish
    8•1 month ago

    “loanword” is a calque and “calque” is a loanword.

    • ZagorathEnglish
      2•13 days ago

      Cor anglais is usually said in French. French horn is usually said in English.

  • @EllvixEnglish
    3•1 month ago

    A community for linguistics humor? Holy shit I’m in.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]MEnglish
    1•1 month ago

    There’s a similar one in Portuguese:

    • [Original] Por que “tudo junto” é separado e “separado” é tudo junto?
    • [Literal translation] Why is “everything together” separated (written as separated words) and “separated” is everything together (written as a single word)?
  • UltraHamster64English
    1•1 month ago

    Can someone please explain the joke. I already saw this like two times and still can’t figure it out

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      6•1 month ago

      A word is hyphenated if it is written with a hyphen, i.e. ‘-’. So the joke is the word hypenated is not hyphenated, so non-hyphenated, while the word non-hyphenated is hyphenated.

      • UltraHamster64English
        2•1 month ago

        Damn i should’ve just googled the translation correctly lol. Thank you so much