Yeah. There are some pretty weird spellings and pronunciations in English.
Speaking of palindromes, Malayalam is a palindrome.
I've always wondered how a word like *harjaz could possibly be derived from *koro-s. I don't see any similarity. They're made up of different letters.
Technically not true, since That's not how Malayalam is spelled, because malayalam isn't an English word.
it's the phonetic form of a ...Malayalam word.
BlackDrake wrote:Especially when you find the etymology of a word and it turns out to be completely different to the actual word. You wonder how the hell they changed their meaning so much. Its like the word 'gay'. It used to mean happy..now it means homosexual. Why?
What Mars said. Language evolves constantly, particularly with semantic meaning. My godparents also hate this. I love to use the word "awesome" and they always say, "No. Mountains are awesome. Your new phone is not. There is nothing awe inspiring about it." It always makes me laugh.
There are linguists who dedicate their whole research careers to examining how these changes came about, though. I wrote a paper on some "new words" once...think I had truthiness and pretexting. Interesting, to say the least.
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Yeah. There are some pretty weird spellings and pronunciations in English.
Speaking of palindromes, Malayalam is a palindrome.
I've always wondered how a word like *harjaz could possibly be derived from *koro-s. I don't see any similarity. They're made up of different letters.
Technically not true, since That's not how Malayalam is spelled, because malayalam isn't an English word.
it's the phonetic form of a ...Malayalam word.
I read about that. Is it something to do with the fact that Malayalam has "two" a's. One that is like a and one that is more like a macron?
BlackDrake wrote:Especially when you find the etymology of a word and it turns out to be completely different to the actual word. You wonder how the hell they changed their meaning so much. Its like the word 'gay'. It used to mean happy..now it means homosexual. Why?
What Mars said. Language evolves constantly, particularly with semantic meaning. My godparents also hate this. I love to use the word "awesome" and they always say, "No. Mountains are awesome. Your new phone is not. There is nothing awe inspiring about it." It always makes me laugh.
There are linguists who dedicate their whole research careers to examining how these changes came about, though. I wrote a paper on some "new words" once...think I had truthiness and pretexting. Interesting, to say the least.
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BlackDrake wrote:Especially when you find the etymology of a word and it turns out to be completely different to the actual word. You wonder how the hell they changed their meaning so much. Its like the word 'gay'. It used to mean happy..now it means homosexual. Why?
What Mars said. Language evolves constantly, particularly with semantic meaning. My godparents also hate this. I love to use the word "awesome" and they always say, "No. Mountains are awesome. Your new phone is not. There is nothing awe inspiring about it." It always makes me laugh.
There are linguists who dedicate their whole research careers to examining how these changes came about, though. I wrote a paper on some "new words" once...think I had truthiness and pretexting. Interesting, to say the least.
'Wireless' was once the old-fashioned way of saying 'radio'. Now, it's the new-fangled way of saying it in a digital format. Figure that.
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Language evolves constantly, particularly with semantic meaning. My godparents also hate this. I love to use the word "awesome" and they always say, "No. Mountains are awesome. Your new phone is not. There is nothing awe inspiring about it." It always makes me laugh.
