stemy@lemmy.ml to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThis comic is sadly not so parodicpixelfed.socialexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down17
arrow-up1160arrow-down1external-linkThis comic is sadly not so parodicpixelfed.socialstemy@lemmy.ml to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square8linkfedilink
minus-squareAliasVortex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year 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-up2·1 year 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-up1·1 year 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.