Zephorah to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoPaper is the new privacy measure.imagemessage-square208linkfedilinkarrow-up11.37Karrow-down117 cross-posted to: thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world
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minus-squareZephorahOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 hours agoAs hetero women we will often refer to friends who are girls as girlfriends. You could be right, but the 7 here is what I just described.
minus-squareTRock@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoEnglish is weird with that. Other languages have a separate word for friend and for partner
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 hours agoEnglish doesn’t even have a word for person who you are engaged to be married to. Luckily French had two, so they shared.
minus-squareOneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoI mean, English is just a collection of loanwords pasted haphazardly onto a bastardization skeleton of Germanic and romance languages.
minus-squareDigitalAudio@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoNot German. But it’s usually differentiated by the use of possessive or no possessive. Mein Freundin = Partner Eine Freundin = Friend English is usually the same though. My girlfriend = Partner One of my girlfriends / a girlfriend = Friend
As hetero women we will often refer to friends who are girls as girlfriends. You could be right, but the 7 here is what I just described.
English is weird with that. Other languages have a separate word for friend and for partner
English doesn’t even have a word for person who you are engaged to be married to. Luckily French had two, so they shared.
I mean, English is just a collection of loanwords pasted haphazardly onto a bastardization skeleton of Germanic and romance languages.
Not German. But it’s usually differentiated by the use of possessive or no possessive.
Mein Freundin = Partner
Eine Freundin = Friend
English is usually the same though.
My girlfriend = Partner
One of my girlfriends / a girlfriend = Friend