Mine is people who separate words when they write. I’m Norwegian, and we can string together words indefinetly to make a new word. The never ending word may not make any sense, but it is gramatically correct

Still, people write words the wrong way by separating them.

Examples:

  • “Ananas ringer” means “the pineapple is calling” when written the wrong way. The correct way is “ananasringer” and it means “pineapple rings” (from a tin).

  • “Prinsesse pult i vinkel” means “a princess fucked at an angle”. The correct way to write it is “prinsessepult i vinkel”, and it means “an angeled princess desk” (a desk for children, obviously)

  • “Koke bøker” means “to cook books”. The correct way is “kokebøker” and means “cookbooks”

I see these kinds of mistakes everywhere!

  • username_unavailable@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Amazon has a fantastic course on languages that I’ve almost completed and it blew my mind. Just seeing it laid out, how languages evolved over time.

    Chief chivalry chameleon

    All borrowed ( swiped? ) from French, as French changed. So we snagged the terms in mid-evolution :)

    Did you know Hyrogliphs are sounds, to be read aloud just like the Roman Alphabet?!

    • fubo@lemmy.world
      7·
      9 months ago

      Hieroglyphs were used for different things! They weren’t always used to denote sounds, but sometimes whole words or parts of words. Some of the ways they were interpreted could seem like puns or puzzles today.

      To make a very loose analogy, with emoji as hieroglyphs:

      • 🦆 — can stand for a duck, the actual waterbird
      • 🦆u — here, the sound duck is modified by another sign. This is the word duke.
      • 🦆o — similarly, this is dock.
      • 📐🦆 — by combining the signs for triangle and duck, we spell out the pronunciation of the word truck.
      • (🦒🦆🦒🦉📰) — the name Jack Jones, spelled as giraffe duck giraffe owl news.

      This is an analogy; the point is that the same sign could be used for different things, especially at different times in history.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs#Writing_system

      • username_unavailable@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        You’re talking about the way some signs ARE words, but that’s much more like “I ❤️NY!” Than “the crocodile symbol means evil, and the fire symbol is the hell… They’re warning us about an evil from hell!”