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English also constructs compound words out of Greek or Latin roots. For example “television” is a technology for seeing things that are happening far away (i.e.
by philwelch 3y ago
English also constructs compound words out of Greek or Latin roots. For example “television” is a technology for seeing things that are happening far away (i.e. in a broadcasting studio); the German word is “Fernsehen”, which would be cognate to “Far-sight”, which is what “television” means. And sometimes we even have an Anglo-Saxon compound word alongside an etymologically equivalent compound word with classical roots, such as “manslaughter” and “homicide”.
- naravara 3y ago> manslaughter I never understood what they thought was so funny.
- gumby 3y agoThe joke is that they don’t decline “man” properly (“mans” rather than “men”). Today we’d write it menslol.
- gumby 3y agoAlso Greek and Latin roots like monstrosities like your example “tele” (Greek) + “vision” (Latin). The one that grates on me most is “monolingual” (unilingual/multilingual or monoglottal/polyglottal)
- taejo 3y agoLive free! Embrace heteroradicalism!