In Russian to say "I saw a video" sounds like "Ia VIDel VIDeo" which just sounds stupid too. Everytime I say it I have to rollback, find a synonym, and repeat the sentence in less stupid way
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Thresh + hold = threshold. Why did they drop the middle 'H'? You still have to pronounce both 'H's, and they don't even have the same sound. They're the worst kind of portmanteau, but they're in the dictionary.
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It's becoming more common in English for people to say "whenever" when it should just be "when." It's like nails on a chalkboard when I hear it used wrong like that
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OP, I appreciate the examples. Thanks to them, I see what you mean, and agree.
Briefly, I was thinking “I don’t want to read a word that’s as long as a sentence, no wonder people break things up”, but that wasn’t what you meant at all.
For English, what irritates me is not knowing what to do with possessive apostrophes, especially if the word already ends in “s”. I know I’ve gotten it wrong many times, but oh well.
What do mean "a sentence"? It is clearly one word : minoritetsladningsbærerdiffusjonskoeffisientmålingsapparatur
“Koke bøker” means “to cook books”. The correct way is “kokebøker” and means “cookbooks”
Interesting idiom in English: To cook the books
This means to do dishonest accounting and make it look good for auditing. Might be two sets of books or similar fuckery.
I assume that "Koke boker" means to cook books physically on a stove or in an oven. But the way you stated it I might mis-interpret it to be dishonest accounting.
Yes, it means to cook books physically on a stove. I don't think we have the same expression for "cooking the books" here in Norway except for "accounting fraud"
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Amazon has a fantastic course on languages that I've almost completed and it blew my mind. Just seeing it laid out, how languages evolved over time.
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All borrowed ( swiped? ) from French, as French changed. So we snagged the terms in mid-evolution :)
Did you know Hyrogliphs are sounds, to be read aloud just like the Roman Alphabet?!
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