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[-] nikt@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Anything can be one word if you remove the spaces 🤷‍♂️

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But it started as one word, it wasn't made into one word later afaik. The words also aren't interchangeable. The thing being talked about is fundamentally nip, not a cat. In a saying like tick tock, the tick part and tock part are interchangeable. In "big bad" they're both referring to the wolf so again they're interchangeable. In this case the "nip" part is the same as the wolf part in "big bad wolf".

If I were to say wolf nip, you'd think of a version of catnip for wolves. If I were to say nip wolf, you'd think of of a wolf that bites people.

[-] nikt@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Technically it started as two words… cat + abbreviation of the latin name (nepeta).

I don’t know how i feel about this pedantic argument being my very first contribution to Lemmy, but here we are.

Hallo! Den Deutschen gefällt diese Idee.

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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[-] ProstheticBrain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

But not every thing should be come two words just be cause you have the cap ability to add a space.

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