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!

  • SadSadSatellite @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I agree with the regional accent issue, but I don’t like the choice of example. Body on its own is clearly an o, but anybody is much more commonly a u sound. That’s less a regional thing and more just language evolving over time.

    I’m far more interested in the changing of c and x to being actually useful letters, as opposed just replacements for other letters that we can easily change from reading to speaking. The y thing isn’t entirely necessary, but we used to use it as a th, as in ye olde inn, and TH is a weird combo of you think about it.

    G and J should get their shit together too.