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What irritates you the most with your own language? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ambiguously used words like "biweekly". Does it mean twice per week? Every other week? Business meeting calendar scheduling terminology is especially bad with this.

Odd phrases like you can chop the tree down. Then but then you proceed to chop that same tree up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Parking in a driveway and driving in a parkway is also a good one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A driveway is where you drive to get the residence, vs the walkway. Parkways are landscaped with park-like greenery .

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

After your alarm goes off... You turn it off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Norwegian is more accurate. "Biweekly" means "annenhver uke" (every other week)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It does here too. It's not an unclear thing, just not used all the time so people don't remember.

Biweekly is every other week, fortnightly.

Semiweekly is twice a week.