Theo to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months agoWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?message-square88fedilinkarrow-up1151arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1142arrow-down1message-squareWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?Theo to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square88fedilinkfile-text
For me it is Mondegreen: which is a misheard lyric, word or phrase that becomes popular and gives it new meaning.
minus-square@leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nllinkfedilink14•4 months ago“pseudo-anglicisms”. good examples are eye-shopping, relooking, face control and salaryman. their origins are interesting and colorful.
minus-squareTheoOPlinkfedilinkEnglish5•4 months agoCool. Similar to anglicism. also, cognate comes to mind here since talking about words between languages.
minus-square@Lumidaub@feddit.orglinkfedilink4•4 months agoThe infamous Handy that I’m typing this on.
minus-square@leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nllinkfedilink2•4 months agothe body bag one is also funny infamous for misinterpretations
minus-squareBoblinkfedilink2•edit-24 months agoIt’s sort of a relief that there’s a term for that and that it occurs in more places than just the Netherlands, because I thought I was going insane.
minus-square@leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nllinkfedilink2•4 months agoi feel you. there was one time i had thought why two relatively common words existed. this ultimately solved the puzzle.
“pseudo-anglicisms”. good examples are eye-shopping, relooking, face control and salaryman.
their origins are interesting and colorful.
Cool. Similar to anglicism. also, cognate comes to mind here since talking about words between languages.
The infamous Handy that I’m typing this on.
the body bag one is also funny infamous for misinterpretations
It’s sort of a relief that there’s a term for that and that it occurs in more places than just the Netherlands, because I thought I was going insane.
i feel you. there was one time i had thought why two relatively common words existed. this ultimately solved the puzzle.