#Diminutive

[summerwages]

big ambitions...

[fruitfulchaos]

What I think the English language is really lacking are proper diminutives and augmentatives. All you have is stuff like cat -> kitty or lord -> overlord. As a polish speaker, this sucks ass. Our diminutives and augmentatives are MUCH more expressive and y'all are really missing out. We can diminutivise words until they become nearly unintelligible. Example:

1. kot (cat)

2. kotek (kitty)

3. koteczek (smaller/cuter kitty)

4. koteczuniek (even more)

5. kotesiunieczek (holy shit)

Not only that, but we can also diminutivise adjectives, verbs, pronouns and adverbs. You can cuteify the adjective "cute"!

More linguistic yapping:

That is, because not only do we include the process of deminutiva sensu stricto, which is your average diminutive, but we also make use of hypocorisms (the process of pet-name-ification) in a much wider area of speech. The diminutive can also be used in a demeaning way and that is actually, factually a separate type of diminutive!

Not only that, but because of, yknow, the way language is used, often words which were already diminutives have replaced its root word in degree of usage, which led to NEW diminutives being created for these diminutives!

An example could be the word książka, as in book. It came from diminutivising the word księga, but soon the roles reversed and książka became the root word, with księga being treated as an augmentative. That meant, however, that książka still needed a further diminutive - that's how książeczka came to life.

I could write an entire article about it but I'll spare myself the work lol this is me exposing myself as a linguist

[queerwizard]

I was watching The Owl House in Dutch, and the word vriendinnetje came up. While looking it up on Wiktionary, I found this sentence...

[yellow-dejavu]

And this diva, La brujita!

Spanish is a wonderful language for how it lets you add "-ito" to the end of a word to immediately make it small and cute.

Saw a children's book at work called "Vlad, el vampirito fabuloso" and I spent the rest of the workday going "Vampirito. Vampirito. Vampirito" in my head like a broken record

[corvidconventicle]

Names are weird, like why did we make Polly a diminutive of Mary

[alohapromisesforever]

Remembering Prince

Remembering Princeby Michael DoyleI remember listening to a nightingale singSomewhere in Europe and just about springAnd thinking about things dismissed in hasteA lot of which was only my imagined wasteOne of these was Prince, dead at fifty-sevenDid find his way past the rain into heavenI suppose that only time will tell me thatThe music plays, glad and sad, where I once satThe purple one felt…

[arabicfornerds]

How the Broken Plural Helps Classify Arabic

The Arabic broken plural has the effect that scholars still debate how to properly classify the several branches of Semitic languages.

[wordgoods]

1. -ote, -ota 

Type: Appreciative, augmentative.

Examples:

perro (dog) – perrote (big dog)

lengua (tongue) – lenguota (big tongue)

Example sentence:

¡Vaya perrote! Parece una vaca. What a dog! It looks like a cow.

2. -azo, -aza

Type: Appreciative, augmentative.

Examples:

coche (car) – cochazo (great car)

mujer (woman) – mujeraza (great woman)

Example sentence:

Este Tesla es un cochazo. This Tesla is a great car.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

Kids have it so right. Be weird without shame and cry about anything that so much as dares to inconvenience you

[suppenzeit]

pre-transition viktor: caused 2 apocalypses in the span of like two weeks

post-transition viktor: has not caused any apocalypses so far

conclusion: transitioning makes you less likely to be a small scale nuke on accident

[summerwages]

sunpup..

[inumbrapugnabimus-maybe]

They are besties your honor

[thoodleoo]

learning medical terms as someone who knows latin is a lot of fun because when you break down the literal meanings of the words a lot of them end up being kind of goofy and ridiculous. case in point i just encountered the word cerebellulum, a diminutive of the already-diminutive word cerebellum, which would mean something along the lines of "itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny brain"

[twyrrinren]

Chilchuck Timovich and his daughters Chilevny

[fascinationstreetmp3]

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[loveisinthebat]

Wee mans