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It's truly a shame (startrek.website)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know this is a joke but idc. The reason for basically every quirk of pronunciation/spelling in English is borrowed words, of which English has very many. Tamales is an obvious/good example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

~~Except it's not even a borrowed word. It's still a Spanish word.~~ nope, I was wrong.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's a borrowed word because we don't have a translation, though. Tamales are tamales. Also we say tamale for singular but it's tamal in Spanish. It's a loan word in every way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Oh? My bad, thanks for the correction! 🙏

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Also we say tamale for singular

Who's this "we"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One tamales.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I would like one flock or herd of tamaleese