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"Offtop" is not a word. It's not in any English dictionary I could find and doesn't appear in any published literature. Matthew 7:3 "And why beholdest thou the
by Antibabelic 10mo ago
"Offtop" is not a word. It's not in any English dictionary I could find and doesn't appear in any published literature.
Matthew 7:3 "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
- Joker_vD 10mo agoOh, it's a transliteration of Russian "офтоп", which itself started as a borrowing of "off-topic" from English (but as a noun instead of an adjective/stative) and then went some natural linguistic developments, namely loss of a hyphen and degemination, surface analysis of the trailing "-ic" as Russian suffix "-ик" [0], and its subsequent removal to obtain the supposed "original, non-derived" form. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%D0%B8%D0%BA#Russian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%D0%B8%D0%BA#Russian
- fngjdflmdflg 10mo ago>subsequent removal to obtain the supposed "original, non-derived" form Also called a "back-formation". FWIF I don't think the existence of corrupted words automatically justifies more corruptions nor does the fact that it is a corruption automatically invalidate it. When language among a group evolves, everyone speaking that language is affected, which is why written language reads pretty differently looking back every 50 years or so, in both formal and informal writing. Therefore language changes should have buy-in from all users.
- speed_spread 10mo agoLanguage evolves in mysterious ways. FWIW I find offtop to have high cromulency.