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English is a strange language. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by Gartenschretel to c/linguistics_humor

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25626225

I know no other languages, so i guess Im just gonna have to roll with it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

There's a similar one in Portuguese:

[Original] Por que "tudo junto" é separado e "separado" é tudo junto?
[Literal translation] Why is "everything together" separated (written as separated words) and "separated" is everything together (written as a single word)?