Microblog Memes

5903 readers

4489 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

729

(Re)bracketing (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

56 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Was slightly mindblown whenl discovered this.

The two parts to the word "helicopter" are not "helil" and "copter", but "helico" meaning spiral, and "pter" meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl.

1044 AM-5Mar 2018 21,200 Retweets 67,241 Lkes

wait WHAT

Aderinthemadscientist: Wait, so... does -copter come "from" helicopter?

108echoes: Yep! This is called rebracketing. Another famous example would be"-burger": the original food item is named after the German city, (Hamburgl+(er], but semantically reinterpreted as (ham]+[burger].

(page 2) 8 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Perhaps I'm going to show myself up as a linguistic brat but doesn't everyone know that helio means wing or flight?

It's where words like halo come from. The aurora around a winged angel.

Or heliopause, Helio in this case meaning high up. Literally, high up air.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Burger means citizens, and burg means castle.

load more comments (5 replies)

load more comments