If German was English
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I've loved Anglish for a long time, but my favorite example is Uncleftish Beholding a scientific paper written in Anglish. "Stuff" turns out to be a pretty logical way to explain shit.
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[email protected] has a leak sprung!
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I'm confused. The modern word in french is "reçu", which is pronounced something like "ruhsue". The English word is "receipt" but pronounced something like "ruhseet". There's no "ooh" sound in the original Latin, so it's not just a matter of adding extra or silent letters in there, it's a complete change to the vowel sounds, plus the re-addition of a 't' sound.
I oversimplified a bit! Sorry!
Words always shift over time and borders. The words "recu" and "receive/receipt" are pretty close and used to be closer. To be more accurate it was "receite" when they adopted it from French. Compared to Latin "recepta" which has a hard P in it. So adding "P" from Latin to the spelling as "receipt" but leaving the pronunciation as Anglo-French "receite" was the most silly part.
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Specifically a tool, like a Werkzeug for example.
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I oversimplified a bit! Sorry!
Words always shift over time and borders. The words "recu" and "receive/receipt" are pretty close and used to be closer. To be more accurate it was "receite" when they adopted it from French. Compared to Latin "recepta" which has a hard P in it. So adding "P" from Latin to the spelling as "receipt" but leaving the pronunciation as Anglo-French "receite" was the most silly part.
Well, English is always silly with the various silent letters. The worst are the silent letters that nonetheless change the pronunciation of the non-silent letters nearby.
Like, I saw a place today named "something-valu", with no "e" on the end. With no "e" it should really be pronounced "valoo". Adding the "e" somehow changes it to "valyoo". Rather than changing the vowel sound, it adds a consonant-like /j/ sound (IPA) to the start of that syllable.
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TIL some StarCraft objects are called Zergzeug
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I only did three months of research for this comic. Guess it still wasn't enough. Verdammte Bullenscheiße!
Common rookie mistake everyone knows you need four months
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I've learned that
Hospital = Krakenhaus = Sick House
Ambulance = Krakenwagen = Sick Wagon
It actually makes sense.
Fun fact the term Hospital while derived from hospitality is mutated for context due to the Knights Hospitallers. They built quite a few outposts that quickly became associated with medicine because pilgrims are stupid.
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While tool is great, I would say "gear" fits even better, does make sense as well.
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The 打 in 打火機 is more like hit in this context. Makes a bit more sense with the way older lighters required you to flick it. But 打 is also used in a ton of contexts haha.
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Because it took me way too long: Beender=Terminator
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Me laughing at germans for calling hospitals "sick houses".
Me realizing hospitals are called "hurty places" in my native language.
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手机 = hand device (cellphone)
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手机 = hand device (cellphone)
JīJī = [Redacted due to NSFW]
(I have no idea what the characters is supposed to look like, I just hear people say it 🤭)
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Because it took me way too long: Beender=Terminator
(there's an unwritten glottal stop between those two ee's, for anyone wondering)
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If it was about a real translation, I'd prefer 'device' instead.
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While tool is great, I would say "gear" fits even better, does make sense as well.
I agree. As I've mentioned, 'stuff' has more the meaning of Kram.
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the thing about compound words is that they become a new word and people usually don't think about them by breaking them up so they don't sound ridiculous. if another language has a dedicated word for it, comparing them with the direct translation of the broken up compound word makes a funny comparison.
if you'd like to break up some English compound words to see how they might sound weird or basic in other languages here are some examples:
- arm chair
- arm pit
- blue print
- cup cake
- dead line
- eye lash
- fire fighter
- fire man
- fire works
- home sick
- horse shoe
- lip stick
- make up
- news paper
- pass word
- pine apple
- pot hole
- work place
