Stern to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months ago'Brain rot' named Oxford Word of the Year 2024corp.oup.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down12
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minus-square@EvilCartyen@feddit.dklinkfedilink19•edit-24 months agoIt’s a compound noun, only reason it’s not regarded as a single word is because English has a weird orthography. I all other germanic languages it would be spelled as ‘brainrot’, but noooo, English has to be weird about it.
minus-squareSternOPlinkfedilink2•4 months agoThoreau called it “brain-rot” in ‘Walden’, but kids these days think that’s a minus key rather then a dash so…
minus-square@Rooskie91@discuss.onlinelinkfedilink2•4 months agoEnglish night have Germanic ancestry, but now it’s got a latin stepdad.
minus-square@vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink1•4 months agoGermanic mother, Latin Step-father, Celtic roommate, and has picked up random words trying to impress women at the gym.
minus-squareOgmioslinkfedilink-17•4 months agoBrainrot Girlfriend was probably responsible for the word’s popularity.
Yeah wtf is this brain rot
It’s a compound noun, only reason it’s not regarded as a single word is because English has a weird orthography.
I all other germanic languages it would be spelled as ‘brainrot’, but noooo, English has to be weird about it.
Thoreau called it “brain-rot” in ‘Walden’, but kids these days think that’s a minus key rather then a dash so…
What? Kids know what a dash is lol
English night have Germanic ancestry, but now it’s got a latin stepdad.
Germanic mother, Latin Step-father, Celtic roommate, and has picked up random words trying to impress women at the gym.
Brainrot Girlfriend was probably responsible for the word’s popularity.