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What irritates you the most with your own language? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CurlyMoustache to c/asklemmy

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember reading that one of the Scandinavian languages had a specific (successful) governmental policy to change from German-like numbers to English-like ones. I don't remember which of them it was.

[–] CurlyMoustache 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is true, at least here in Norway: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_nye_tellem%C3%A5ten ("The new way of counting").

Our parliament deceided in 1949 that 21 should not be pronounced as "one-and-twenty", but as "twenty-one". It was because new phone numbers got introduced, and the new way gave a lot less errors when spoken to the "sentralbordamer" (switch operator ladies).

[–] Ehz350 2 points 1 year ago

We need that here in Denmark.