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1ostA5tro6yne @lemmy.blahaj.zone

12mo ago

language rule

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heck, most dialects have different internal dialects too!
the diversity is what makes languages so cool

Nobody in their right mind uses words like "Palatschinken", "Paradeiser", "Piefke" or "Schlagobers".
- Explain to me how the word "Quark" has any reason to exist.
  
  What else would I call it? Certainly not "Topfen".
  
  odo posting
  
  Hey, that's a legitimate word... for particle physics.
- People who say Krapfen should be in prison
  
  True. It's Kreppel, obviously
  
  Yeah, it's pronounced ['krapfə']. Written something like Krapfo.
- Paradeiser
  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)

"A language is just a dialect with an army and a navy" -Max Weinreich

You mean to tell me Spain speaks Spanish correctly?
- what spanish?
  
  "Variedades de español"
  During much of its history, and especially during the Francoist dictatorship (1939–1975), the Catalan language was ridiculed as a mere dialect of Spanish.[60][61] This view, based on political and ideological considerations, has no linguistic validity.[60][61]
  Wikipedia: Catalan language
  
  They are all wrong (except Catalan, because that's a different language and closer to French than Spanish)
  
  Bro I love that cheese
- Well, technically…
- The north-west speaks Portuguese, the north-east speaks french, basques speak a language that's not even Indo-European. South is rednecks, and the rest is madrid + some desert. But, sure, the the nice infographic from someone else.
  
  It's wild to me that Basque seems to have just evolved on its own, and that it's survived

Since I have no horse in this race, I can proudly say that both American English and English English are wrong. The English language as a whole is wrong. Thank you, I'll come back later to impart more wisdom.
- Where can I subscribe to more lojban propaganda?

The United States
- The US and UK
  
  The UK doesn't talk wrong, just the cockneys.

But, do programming languages have dialects?
- spaces/tabs

Dave Anthony moment

It's not about right or wrong, it's the only revenge we have against the first and second most evil empires to ever exist.

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