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What irritates you the most with your own language? (lemmy.world)

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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] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The words "funnily" "reasonableness" and "impactful".

Even though they're apparently all real words, they are clunky and make one sound unintelligent when there are more elegant synonyms available like "comically/humorously" "reason" (no idea why it needs the "-ness" to be a noun when it already is) and "significant".

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

My native language is English.

What irritates me most is the whole thing. The language is so incredibly contextual that it is a pain in the ass once you learn something less contextual. It seems deeply infected with all the parts of English/American culture that I hate. It feels like you cannot just say what you mean, you have to dance in circles and obscure the point. Theres no need for it to be so complicated.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

It is not tied to a certain language. But I fucking h when I rhyme words by acciden

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Spanish has genderneutral terms and they are not the default, people are trying to move away from defaulting to masc pronouns but it's been hard to get everyone on board

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