Heh good insight.
(Ps I also have these thoughts about breaking words down (unicorn is uni-corn) and some people get really snarky about it. Don’t let bad comments get to you.)
https://kbin.social/m/Etymology could use some more love!
Where’s the bot that links this as a community when you need’em.
In-sight
Good grief…
TIL that people didn’t get this. I had a similar situation where I would pronounce unleaded as unleeded
Oh, I used to do this all the time. You see a word in print, but you never hear anybody say it, so you wind up pronouncing it wrong.
I think the best was when I pronounced “misled” as my-seld because I thought it was the past tense of “misle”.
The spelling of some words can be very Ms. Leeding
umopapisdn
No, it’s the opposite!
Oppo-site? Now I’m wondering about everything.
Wait, what is the opposite?
contrary
Downside up?
And round and round
Upsigh down? Or upside ouwn?
Breakfast = break fast (as in fasting) :)
Does “right-side up” mean the right side is up or the “right” side is up? English does not make sense
also hi binette
So right side up means its on it’s side?
Right = correct
“The correct side is up”
I agree, English is a mess.
English where feat smell and noses run
Artist: English feat. Smell & No$3$
Track: Run
Feet, not feat
Right as in correct.
hi nww :D
Right as incorrect.
Stupid english
Totally. The right hand I use to write with is not my right hand, it’s my left (averechts, if you will)
How else would one interpret it?
Downside up?
Down on the upside
Yes! So glad someone else though of this 😎
It’s not really that I interpret it in another way, but I never really thought about the structure of the word 😅
Ha same
I’ve had similar realizations about words like “across” and “again”.
I get “across”, but what about again?
“A gain” as in one more. Gain meaning “an increase in amount”
A gain. In addition to.
Go further. For example, people say ‘gypped’ without knowing it’s a pejorative reference to the word ‘Gypsy’ which is itself a pejorative of the Romani.
I remember learning this about 20ish years ago and telling my then-sister in law about it when I explained why I wasn’t going to use it anymore. I got told I had a stick up my ass, and this was by a marginalized (gay, immigrant) woman. (Somewhat unrelated note - very grateful she’s a former relation.)
So glad people have been learning and I’ve been hearing “gypped” less and less in recent years.
Some words have simply entered common use and become decoupled from their former meaning. Maybe your acquaintance was right.
Seems like Orwell was right
Watching my own language means my “acquaintance” was right? I don’t think I’m the one with a stick, if that’s the case.
And the Egyptians, too!
My favorite recently is sophist from the pejorative Platonic definition. It really puts words like sophisticated in a different etymological light and subtle contextual meaning.
What’s sophist mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist_(dialogue)
Fake but convincing by argument, gaslighting, etc., generally by someone in a position like a professor, a judge, or a politician.
Yeah, actually I had never thought about the structure of the word either. Thanks for the great shower thought!
I’ve definitely had a similar feeling with band names and brand names, etc. You’re just so used to hearing them that they are their own thing without being the component words that the name contains.
I think the pronunciation, specifically the blending of the end of “upside” and beginning of “down”, turns it into one of those compound words that your brain interprets as an independent word, rather than a combination of its composite parts.
I think this is the case for a lot of words. It ceases to be a combination of words and it’s just one word. Then in the shower you break it down and ohhh.
Unused to wonder if the radio announcers that are always reciting the station call letters found that the letters stopped sounding like individual sounds, and the whole recitation became a sort of “word” for them. Like “You’re listening to 102.9FM WBLM!” Did it stop being “double-you bee ell emm,” and turn into more of a mashup of “dubbleyabeeyelmm”?
True, the difference is pretty subtle, especially to a listener, but I wonder strange things sometimes…
As a fellow wonderer of strange things, all I have to say is keep wondering, my friend :)
Always funny to see native speakers discover trivial facts about their language
Took me until high school to realize bonjour=bon jour=good day. My brain just about exploded. Worldview destroyed.
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Go away with that attitude.
Oh nooooo someone called someone else stupid on the internet. Quick! We must don our white knight armour at the soonest to defend that poor defenseless specimen.
If you haven’t noticed there’s a lot of negativity on this platform, your comment included. It really needs to change.
.> tells someone to go away
.> “there’s a lot of negativity on this platform”
😬
Overlooks that was to someone that called someone dense and that I specified “with that attitude”. 😬 Just like I called out your comment. This is not a paradox of intolerance.
And a quick look at your profile shows that you are rife with those kind of comments.
🚪🚶♂️
Wonder if OP thinks “right side up” means the left side is down
You should celebrate with some upside down cake
So that’s what it’s called…
It’s actually one of my faves 😋
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This reminds me of the time I had a co-worker tell me “That’s why they call it ‘work’. 'Cause you’re working!”
I mean it’s more that it’s “working” because it’s “work”