Stern@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago'Brain rot' named Oxford Word of the Year 2024corp.oup.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareEvilCartyen@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-27 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-squareStern@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoThoreau called it “brain-rot” in ‘Walden’, but kids these days think that’s a minus key rather then a dash so…
minus-squareRooskie91@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoEnglish night have Germanic ancestry, but now it’s got a latin stepdad.
minus-squareOgmios@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 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.
Brainrot Girlfriend was probably responsible for the word’s popularity.