x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy · edit-21 year agoPeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?message-squaremessage-square143linkfedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down148file-text
arrow-up1118arrow-down1message-squarePeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy · edit-21 year agomessage-square143linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePronelllinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-21 year agoAnd what’s the word in German that means everything you just wrote?
minus-squareBudgetBandit@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-21 year ago“Verschlimmbessern” is the best one I’ve read somewhere. It’s the result of trying to fix it but you fail and make it worse. Oh, and it’s read as in red, not read as in rede
minus-squareBrickardo@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoAt this point “creating new words” is faster to say and to write
And what’s the word in German that means everything you just wrote?
Neuwörtermachenaufgeregheit.
Neologismuskreationsvorfreude would fit too
“Verschlimmbessern” is the best one I’ve read somewhere. It’s the result of trying to fix it but you fail and make it worse.
Oh, and it’s read as in red, not read as in rede
At this point “creating new words” is faster to say and to write