▲ 231 ▼ What's an interesting etymology for a common term? (feddit.uk) submitted 3 months ago by Iconoclast@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 213 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) Makes me wonder what is a critical amount of people to use a word for it to realify permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago* (1 child) There's a fun thing called a "friendly language", which is any pseudolanguage spoken by a insulated group of 2 or more people, and not spoken by the outside group permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) That doesn't make it a part of another language though, which is what I was thinking of. But you're right, as long as communication is successful, it is a language, I guess permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago When my camp counselor friends and I had friends visit us from the outside world, they said they could barely understand our shared language lol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago* (1 child) There's a fun thing called a "friendly language", which is any pseudolanguage spoken by a insulated group of 2 or more people, and not spoken by the outside group permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) That doesn't make it a part of another language though, which is what I was thinking of. But you're right, as long as communication is successful, it is a language, I guess permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago When my camp counselor friends and I had friends visit us from the outside world, they said they could barely understand our shared language lol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) That doesn't make it a part of another language though, which is what I was thinking of. But you're right, as long as communication is successful, it is a language, I guess permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago When my camp counselor friends and I had friends visit us from the outside world, they said they could barely understand our shared language lol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago When my camp counselor friends and I had friends visit us from the outside world, they said they could barely understand our shared language lol permalink fedilink source parent