Chloé 🥕 ( @carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 49•2 months agoheck, most dialects have different internal dialects too!
the diversity is what makes languages so cool
Manucode ( @manucode@feddit.de ) 34•2 months agoNobody in their right mind uses words like “Palatschinken”, “Paradeiser”, “Piefke” or “Schlagobers”.
Prunebutt ( @Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ) 28•2 months agoExplain to me how the word “Quark” has any reason to exist.
Manucode ( @manucode@feddit.de ) 21•2 months agoWhat else would I call it? Certainly not “Topfen”.
Match!! ( @match@pawb.social ) English6•2 months agoodo posting
Arlaerion ( @arlaerion@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 months agoHey, that’s a legitimate word… for particle physics.
Prunebutt ( @Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ) 1•2 months agoOk, I give you that…
germanatlas ( @germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 7•2 months agoPeople who say Krapfen should be in prison
Arlaerion ( @arlaerion@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 months agoYeah, it’s pronounced [‘krapfə’]. Written something like Krapfo.
lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 1•2 months agoTrue. It’s Kreppel, obviously
gandalf_der_12te ( @gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•2 months agoParadeiser
I believe they called them that because the first people to try them liked them so much, they thought they were in paradise.
PARADEISER DEEZ NUTZ! (I’m sorry, not sorry)
hakase ( @hakase@lemm.ee ) English23•2 months ago“A language is just a dialect with an army and a navy” -Max Weinreich
HEXN3T ( @HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 8•2 months agoThe United States
GlennicusM ( @GlennicusM@beehaw.org ) 5•2 months agoThe US and UK
DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ) 1•2 months agoThe UK doesn’t talk wrong, just the cockneys.
Jimbo ( @Jimbo@yiffit.net ) 5•2 months agoDave Anthony moment
naevaTheRat ( @naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•2 months agoIt’s not about right or wrong, it’s the only revenge we have against the first and second most evil empires to ever exist.