cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25626225
I know no other languages, so i guess Im just gonna have to roll with it.
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I guess these examples would be heterological.
"loanword" is a calque and "calque" is a loanword.
A community for linguistics humor? Holy shit I'm in.
There's a similar one in Portuguese:
- [Original] Por que "tudo junto" é separado e "separado" é tudo junto?
- [Literal translation] Why is "everything together" separated (written as separated words) and "separated" is everything together (written as a single word)?
Just a PSA that AP dropped the hyphen following most common prefixes
Can someone please explain the joke. I already saw this like two times and still can't figure it out
A word is hyphenated if it is written with a hyphen, i.e. '-'. So the joke is the word hypenated is not hyphenated, so non-hyphenated, while the word non-hyphenated is hyphenated.
Damn i should've just googled the translation correctly lol. Thank you so much