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You’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 disin
by hnlmorg 1y ago
You’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.