• gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    18 days ago

    There are no such thing as fake words, the only deciding factor of whether a word is “real” is usage, if enough use it, it becomes “real”

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      18 days ago

      Fair, but I think in the context of an etymology thread it’s fair to say a word that came from nowhere, that someone thought they were inventing anew, is “less real” than all the origins at work here. But I appreciate the relativism, descriptivism, and hyanuboinism.

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          18 days ago

          I’ve just invented it from no sources, but I’ve taken it to mean “intending to inform and correct a future misunderstanding, without correcting the present statement”

          I don’t have my IPA memorized, but in my accent I propose “high-annu-boyn-ism”, in case anyone wanted to use it out loud.

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      18 days ago

      Makes me wonder what is a critical amount of people to use a word for it to realify

      • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        18 days ago

        There’s a fun thing called a “friendly language”, which is any pseudolanguage spoken by a insulated group of 2 or more people, and not spoken by the outside group

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          18 days ago

          That doesn’t make it a part of another language though, which is what I was thinking of.

          But you’re right, as long as communication is successful, it is a language, I guess

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            18 days ago

            When my camp counselor friends and I had friends visit us from the outside world, they said they could barely understand our shared language lol