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[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 13 points 1 year ago

I speak (well, mostly write) English because it's the only language that the vast majority of the world knows, including my girlfriend.

Also, I'm a linguaphile and it has more words for me to play with than any other language ๐Ÿ˜

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Also, Iโ€™m a linguaphile and it has more words for me to play with than any other language ๐Ÿ˜

You are definitely missing a few..

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 year ago
[-] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

But can you combine words to make up new grammatically correct words on the fly?

We can make all kinds of words in our language.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 year ago

But can you combine words to make up (gramatically correct) words on the fly?

Absofuckinglutely ๐Ÿ˜

[-] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Infixes are not very normal though and I would assume most languages have prefixes and suffixes.

I mean more in the terms of people will get annoyed if you didn't write two words together and instead separated them. And that is becoming pretty common since English is used a lot and you never do it in English, so people started doing it to our language as well (I'm also guilty)

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 year ago

Some people will always get annoyed when you play with language, doesn't matter how you do it or with which language.

English just happens to be exceptionally malleable and fun to play with, compared to most other languages including my native Danish ๐Ÿคท

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Haha, yeah Danish sucks. I understand now, lol.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 year ago

Some aspects of it, such as the fact that the only way to know the en/et of nouns is to already know, indeed suck but I wouldn't say the language as a whole sucks. It's an ok language, English is just a much better one ๐Ÿคท

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
  1. quantity of words has nothing to do with the potential of playing with a language / double meanings tc
  2. don't believe every website you find in a google search
[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 year ago
  1. You're correct that it's far from the only factor, but it DOES help.

  2. Likewise ๐Ÿคท

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