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English is a strange language. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] ultrahamster64 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can someone please explain the joke. I already saw this like two times and still can't figure it out

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ultrahamster64 2 points 5 days ago

Damn i should've just googled the translation correctly lol. Thank you so much