minus-squareAlsaValderaan@lemmy.blahaj.zonetomemes@lemmy.world•Living languagelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·19 hours agoIn German it’s also Wespe, but in my local Austrian dialect it’s pronounced Wepsn. Very interesting, I didn’t know that shift had happened (or I guess not happened) elsewhere. linkfedilink
minus-squareAlsaValderaan@lemmy.blahaj.zonetomemes@lemmy.world•A language like a set of building blocks.linkfedilinkarrow-up6·29 days agoI’m all for putting handshoe in english, myself. linkfedilink
minus-squareAlsaValderaan@lemmy.blahaj.zonetomemes@lemmy.world•A language like a set of building blocks.linkfedilinkarrow-up6·29 days agoEiskasten is also a (very outdated) one. linkfedilink
In German it’s also Wespe, but in my local Austrian dialect it’s pronounced Wepsn. Very interesting, I didn’t know that shift had happened (or I guess not happened) elsewhere.