58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agoIt's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was lookingmessage-squaremessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up190arrow-down1message-squareIt's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square66fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNorthWestWind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-232 minutes agoMay as well combine words with the same pronunciation into one word and call it Simplified English (/s) Honestly tho, this is one of the features of Simplified Chinese, which created the infamous “fuck vegetables” (干菜类). It’s meant to say “dried vegetables” (乾菜類 in TC), but 乾→干. Meanwhile, there exists 幹→干 as well, which means “fuck”.
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours agoFuck as in curse or as an action?
minus-squareNorthWestWind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoUsed in this context? Action. But it can mean both.
May as well combine words with the same pronunciation into one word and call it Simplified English (/s)
Honestly tho, this is one of the features of Simplified Chinese, which created the infamous “fuck vegetables” (干菜类).
It’s meant to say “dried vegetables” (乾菜類 in TC), but 乾→干. Meanwhile, there exists 幹→干 as well, which means “fuck”.
Fuck as in curse or as an action?
Used in this context? Action. But it can mean both.
Even better :D