stemy@lemmy.ml to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoThis 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 days agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareAliasVortex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·11 days agoIt’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 days agoA 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-up1·11 days agoThe flexibility of the English language should be celebrated for this sort of thing.
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.