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As it's an article about language, I hope you don't mind me pointing out that there's an additional h in > an introduction to how different language can be has
by w-m 4y ago
As it's an article about language, I hope you don't mind me pointing out that there's an additional h in
> an introduction to how different language can be has different as
It's probably just a simple typo here. But in my head it immediately sounds like a French speaker overcompensating, by adding H's where there aren't any [0], as I have heard this so many times. As a French speaker learning English as a second language, one would learn that H's at word beginnings need to be pronounced in English. And then the brain sneaks them in with English words that didn't have any to begin with, like hangry, or habout. I find the whole topic of overcompensation super fascinating [1]. Another good one is German ESL speakers subconsciously overcompenthating by changing s into th.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dropping#H-insertion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dropping#H-insertion
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection
- Adverblessly 4y agoOn the subject of typos there's also a "woudl" that should have been a "would"
- iraldir 4y agothanks, corrected
- iraldir 4y agoI definitely know it's wrong, but whether it's a pure typo, or an overcompensation which my brain somehow converted into typing, I wouldn't know. That's definitely a thing though (hilariously shown in what the fuck france: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzJWugjchhQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzJWugjchhQ)
- w-m 4y agoHa, of course he would talk about this. But I hadn't seen this one yet, thanks for the link! I've been to his show, my favorite bit was the one about carrelage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIqVY1SwXls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIqVY1SwXls
- daveslash 4y agoInteresting. Thank you for that perspective. You may already know, but "hangry" is english slang for "I'm so hungry, I'm angry!", or "I'm very grumpy right now because I'm so hungry". As in: "I don't care where we eat, just pull the damn car over at the next stop - I'm HANGRY!" (see also: "hucken fungry") I could see the h-insertion leading to comical lost-in-translation situations.
- w-m 4y agoYep, this makes it quite the minefield, when a French person you don't know too well tells you "I'm really really hangry right now". Are they grumpy and hungry and joking, or so completely furious that they started overcompensating? Choose wisely on how to respond :)