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!

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Kids split words in American, too; or they join the words. We see examples like:

    • Incase
    • aswell
    • shutdown (wrong as verb)
    • backup(wrong as verb)

    Or wrong splits:

    • back up (wrong as noun)
    • under stand

    Or just plain dumb:

    • emails
    • till (instead of 'til)

    I wish I could say it was better in English, but we’re being dragged down with them.

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      1 year ago

      Till is actually a word that predates until.

      Many assume that till is an abbreviated form of until. Actually, it is a distinctive word that existed in English at least a century before until, both as a preposition meaning “to” and a conjunction meaning “until.” It has seen continuous use in English since the 12th century and is a perfectly legitimate synonym of until.

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