Mine is people who separate words when they write. I’m Norwegian, and we can string together words indefinetly to make a new word. The never ending word may not make any sense, but it is gramatically correct

Still, people write words the wrong way by separating them.

Examples:

  • “Ananas ringer” means “the pineapple is calling” when written the wrong way. The correct way is “ananasringer” and it means “pineapple rings” (from a tin).

  • “Prinsesse pult i vinkel” means “a princess fucked at an angle”. The correct way to write it is “prinsessepult i vinkel”, and it means “an angeled princess desk” (a desk for children, obviously)

  • “Koke bøker” means “to cook books”. The correct way is “kokebøker” and means “cookbooks”

I see these kinds of mistakes everywhere!

  • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    English isn’t really a language, it’s a shambling amalgamation of a bunch of different languages so it’s got all sorts of insane, nonsensical rules and exceptions. I can totally understand why it’s a frustrating language to pick up, and IDK that I would’ve bothered to learn if it wasn’t my native language.

      • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Hmm, maybe I should try learning some Norwegian or Sami…

        Did you know any other languages before you learned English? Also, when did you learn it?

        • CurlyMoustache@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          9 months ago

          I didn’t speak any other languages than my native tongue before english, and I think I started learning English when I was around 10. This was early 90s, and they perhaps start even earlier now.

          We knew alot of english before we had it in school. Music and films were a big influence on us, as it is still today.

          • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            Ah yeah, I forgot about the shitloads of media we pump out. Being constantly exposed to a language over a long time definitely makes it easier to learn.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      eh i don’t really understand why people are so obsessed with rules in language, like that’s not how humans inherently learn language anyways and just memorizing rules seems like a great way to make yourself use the language wrong for a long time.

      The ideal way to learn languages is immersion, expose yourself to the language as much as possible and your brain will just automatically start making sense of it, and when you do it this way the regularity of the language is basically irrelevant.