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What the heck is with the “-er” suffix?
“I’m a witcher.”
“What does a witcher do?”
“I create watch catch breed f*** hunt witches.”
“I’m a birder.”
“What does a birder do?”
“I create catch hunt breed f*** watch birds.”
“Actually I think several of those could apply…”
I think the confusing-ass formula is this:
A [word1]er is a [word2]er of [word1]s.
Geralt of rivia is a witcher who fucks witches
I think create and breed are the only ones that don’t apply there.
Isn’t witcher just a word that was made up for (the English translation of) the Witcher series?
yes, the word wiedźmin was also made up so why not
So a mother is someone who watches moths?
They create moths
Witcher is a silly thing to use as your first example, it’s a made up word for a translated book. I can’t think of another word that behaves like that. Making a mountain of a made up molehill. A Molehiller, I would call you.
So what’s a “fucker”?
A fucker of fucks, clearly.
A giver of fucks
A fuck hunter
One who fucks.
A bouncer is a bouncer of bounce?
A bouncer is a creator of bounce
Well, [word2] is probably not the same as [word1].
As an aside, the wonderful thing about Tiggers, is that Tiggers are tiggers of tiggs!
A badger verifies badge legitimacy.
Or maybe he gives badges. Time to go find one O:
I’m a lemmer.
What’s the feminine form? Witchess?
Nope because females are not allowed!
I was under the impression that Witcher is to be interpreted as the male form of Witch - a Witchman, basically. I think they even call Geralt a Witchman a few times in the games, come to think of it.
It’s a contraction where the second word is dropped, because what else would you do with them?
Centuries go by, and sometimes it’s no longer the most obvious. But the contraction has already been accepted