x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-221 days agoPeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?message-squaremessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down148file-text
arrow-up1118arrow-down1message-squarePeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-221 days agomessage-square144fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremorphballganon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·21 days agoIf you want to create new words, boy am I excited to tell you about German
minus-squareOhmsLawn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·21 days agoTruly unbelievable language. I love it. So easy to start, then you hit that wall of 25-letter words.
minus-squareFonzie!@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·20 days agoNo you hit that wall of der, die, den, das…
minus-squarePronell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-221 days agoAnd what’s the word in German that means everything you just wrote?
minus-squareBrickardo@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·20 days agoAt this point “creating new words” is faster to say and to write
minus-squareIHateReddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·21 days agoNeologismuskreationsvorfreude would fit too
minus-squareBudgetBandit@sh.itjust.workscakelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-221 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
If you want to create new words, boy am I excited to tell you about German
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…
And what’s the word in German that means everything you just wrote?
Neuwörtermachenaufgeregheit.
At this point “creating new words” is faster to say and to write
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