Theo@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?message-squaremessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1135arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1126arrow-down1message-squareWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?Theo@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square80fedilinkfile-text
For me it is Mondegreen: which is a misheard lyric, word or phrase that becomes popular and gives it new meaning.
minus-squareleaky_shower_thought@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 months ago“pseudo-anglicisms”. good examples are eye-shopping, relooking, face control and salaryman. their origins are interesting and colorful.
minus-squareTheo@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoCool. Similar to anglicism. also, cognate comes to mind here since talking about words between languages.
minus-squareBob@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 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-squareleaky_shower_thought@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 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.
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.