Native language fails?

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Re: Native language fails?

Postby sporedandroid » Wed Feb 24, 2021 7:06 am

Iversen wrote:Of course it happens, but it is not necessarily a result of deterioration or your native language. It could simply be that you have acquired some new semantic 'boxes' from learning another language, and now your thoughts are running along pathways that weren't developed for your native language. Like me with African birds, that may not even have a name in Danish.

Probably that. I find a lot of people condescending/patronizing/infantilizing. Those words aren’t quite correct, those words have a slightly more negative connotation than what I’m going for. So people accuse me of imagining things and don’t get what I’m trying to say. Maybe another language has the word I’m looking for. Who knows?
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Re: Native language fails?

Postby tungemål » Wed Feb 24, 2021 7:44 am

golyplot wrote:
IronMike wrote:epitome: Back in the day, I had in my internal vocabulary two words, only one of which I'd seen spelled, and that's epitome. But I pronounced it "EP-i-tome" and it had a distinct meaning (now long forgotten) than epitome, which I pronounced "uh-PIT-oh-mee" but had never seen in writing. Or so I thought. Ugh.


I also thought it was EPi-tome due to encountering the word in reading long before I heard it spoken.


Aha! See my post on groovy four syllable words in English.
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Re: Native language fails?

Postby einzelne » Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:03 am

It is called language attrition.
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Re: Native language fails?

Postby tungemål » Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:35 pm

einzelne wrote:It is called language attrition.

Yes, I had that word on the tip of my tongue, but couldn't remember it.
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Re: Native language fails?

Postby dampingwire » Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:15 pm

I remember reading the first of a series of children's books to the kids full of made up words (like Muggle) and made up names like a bookish girl called "Her-Me-Own-ee".
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Re: Native language fails?

Postby golyplot » Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:55 pm

It's a good thing Rowling explained the pronunciation in book 5 when she tries to teach Grawp.
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