Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 21 days agoWhat's an interesting etymology for a common term?message-squaremessage-square218linkfedilinkarrow-up1230arrow-down12
arrow-up1228arrow-down1message-squareWhat's an interesting etymology for a common term?Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 21 days agomessage-square218linkfedilink
minus-squaregwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·20 days agoThere’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
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·20 days agoThat 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
minus-squaresem@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·19 days agoWhen my camp counselor friends and I had friends visit us from the outside world, they said they could barely understand our shared language lol
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
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
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