stemy@lemmy.ml to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 天前This comic is sadly not so parodicpixelfed.socialexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1164arrow-down16
arrow-up1158arrow-down1external-linkThis comic is sadly not so parodicpixelfed.socialstemy@lemmy.ml to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 天前message-square8fedilink
minus-squareAliasVortex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·11 天前It’s the adjective form of parody. That said, English is the kind of language where you can absolutely invent words and let context clues fill in the blanks for what the words mean.
minus-squareKSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 天前A lot of languages have that, it’s not just English In fact I feel English is relatively low on the scale of word inventing, some languages get crazy with it
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 天前The flexibility of the English language should be celebrated for this sort of thing.
Is parodic a word?
It’s the adjective form of parody.
That said, English is the kind of language where you can absolutely invent words and let context clues fill in the blanks for what the words mean.
A lot of languages have that, it’s not just English
In fact I feel English is relatively low on the scale of word inventing, some languages get crazy with it
The flexibility of the English language should be celebrated for this sort of thing.
It is now!
It’s a perfectly cromulent word.