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Technically that’s a Latin word that just happens to have kept the same spelling and meaning in English.
by yawpitch 1y ago
Technically that’s a Latin word that just happens to have kept the same spelling and meaning in English.
- dpassens 1y ago> kept the same spelling and meaning in English So it's also an English word, then?
- yawpitch 1y agoArguably it’s really only an English word once it deviates from the original spelling and meaning. Like how the original British English “Aluminum” is now the American English word for the metal represented by the newer British English “Aluminium”, all of which borrowed from, but didn’t outright steal, the Latin roots.
- hnlmorg 1y agoYou’ve made the faux pas of presenting the spiel that a word’s etymology or genus means it cannot be English. While an entrepreneurial view, this mammoth disinformation is equivalent to plaza cafe sofa schmooze. (I know this isn’t the most coherent post I’ve ever made, but I wanted to make a point by cramming in as many borrowed words as I could)
- bigDinosaur 1y agoEnglish has not been in its final form forever, therefore there was a language or languages that preceded it. English words derive from one of these previous languages. Since a word from another language cannot be an English word, English does in fact not have any English words except ones that sprang arbitrarily out of nowhere.
- technothrasher 1y ago> English words derive from one of these previous languages. Since a word from another language cannot be an English word [...] You sabotage your own argument with these two sentences.
- bigDinosaur 1y agoI genuinely am shocked that someone could read what I wrote and think I was serious. Poe's law strikes again.
- thoroughburro 1y ago> Since a word from another language cannot be an English word This is false, so your argument is also false.
- bigDinosaur 1y agoAs per my other reply, I'm genuinely shocked that you took my comment to be serious. It's basically as satirical one can get of the position that a word cannot be a word in multiple languages. Poe's law and all that I suppose.
- yawpitch 1y agoI’m enjoying the schadenfreude (note, the English word, not the German one) of watching this thread unspool.
- nkrisc 1y agoTechnically it’s now both a Latin and English word. And several other languages as well.