Birth of a nickname - John McWhorter
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Date: 2020-08-22
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Shruggz
The colloquial phrase mentioned in this video A whole nother. might qualify as a rare example in English of what are called infixes (like prefixes and suffixes but instead of being attached at either the beginning or end of a given root word, they're inserted inside of the word (often a compound or multi-syllable word) in order to further refine its meaning -- albeit that the resulting expression is not a single word but a phrase/clause comprised of three individual words not attached to one another.
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The colloquial phrase mentioned in this video A whole nother. might qualify as a rare example in English of what are called infixes (like prefixes and suffixes but instead of being attached at either the beginning or end of a given root word, they're inserted inside of the word (often a compound or multi-syllable word) in order to further refine its meaning -- albeit that the resulting expression is not a single word but a phrase/clause comprised of three individual words not attached to one another.
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Attila
What if people made this intentionally and not by mistake, since folks have this tendency to play around their language. Even in our time we change our languages for fun, simplicity and a multitude of reasons.
Even if it was a mistake these interpretations were more convenient for the people, think about it: you can also misinterpret in the reverse direction. So in retrospect it was not a mistake since it made the language more understandable. These mistakes how a language evolves.
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What if people made this intentionally and not by mistake, since folks have this tendency to play around their language. Even in our time we change our languages for fun, simplicity and a multitude of reasons.
Even if it was a mistake these interpretations were more convenient for the people, think about it: you can also misinterpret in the reverse direction. So in retrospect it was not a mistake since it made the language more understandable. These mistakes how a language evolves.
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Gen
One of my nicks (Ako) have a different background though. 'Ako' is the Filipino for 'I (am)', my first word. Another nick of mine is 'Kukay', from Flame of Recca's monk Kuukai-sama. Now, this one, I don't know why was used on me. Prolly because I was bald when I was a child and my father and his brothers are fans of Flame of Recca?
Nicks here are sometimes not a short version of the name, but that which you're associated with.
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One of my nicks (Ako) have a different background though. 'Ako' is the Filipino for 'I (am)', my first word. Another nick of mine is 'Kukay', from Flame of Recca's monk Kuukai-sama. Now, this one, I don't know why was used on me. Prolly because I was bald when I was a child and my father and his brothers are fans of Flame of Recca?
Nicks here are sometimes not a short version of the name, but that which you're associated with.
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Joo
My nick name is pardalzinho pardal is a Brazilian bird and zinho is basically little so it translates to little pardal there is some background to that but i dont want to write more
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My nick name is pardalzinho pardal is a Brazilian bird and zinho is basically little so it translates to little pardal there is some background to that but i dont want to write more
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LilacDoe
I had to memorize the Prologue to Canterbury Tales in Old English back in high school. It made literally no sense, might as well have been written in Japanese.
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I had to memorize the Prologue to Canterbury Tales in Old English back in high school. It made literally no sense, might as well have been written in Japanese.
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Joel
In swedish, our word for 'you' has picked up an n in this manner, so that in danish, where this change didn't happen, it's 'i', but in swedish it's 'ni'
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In swedish, our word for 'you' has picked up an n in this manner, so that in danish, where this change didn't happen, it's 'i', but in swedish it's 'ni'
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