cm0002@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 7 days agoEnglish is a strange language.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1523arrow-down17cross-posted to: linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.worksshitposting@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1516arrow-down1imageEnglish is a strange language.lemmy.mlcm0002@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 7 days agomessage-square34fedilinkcross-posted to: linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.worksshitposting@lemmy.ml
minus-squaremetaStatic@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·7 days agoSame person who named the fear of long words Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 days agoI think I first saw this question on coolsig.com in the late nineties. Also, I just discovered that site still exists. Fun!
minus-squareVespair@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 days agoThis seems to apply to a number of speech impediments, as “rhotacism” is the term for people with difficulty saying R sounds and apparently “stutter” is a particularly difficult word for people with stutters.
What sadist put an S in lisp?
Same person who named the fear of long words Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
And who spelt dyslexia like that
I think I first saw this question on coolsig.com in the late nineties.
Also, I just discovered that site still exists. Fun!
This seems to apply to a number of speech impediments, as “rhotacism” is the term for people with difficulty saying R sounds and apparently “stutter” is a particularly difficult word for people with stutters.
Wait, I thought it’s a th?
List Processing, ya know?