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minus-squareEvilCartyenlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-210 hours agoIt’s a compound noun, only reason it’s not regarded as a single word is because English has a weird orthography. I all other germanic languages it would be spelled as ‘brainrot’, but noooo, English has to be weird about it.
minus-squareRooskie91@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 hours agoEnglish night have Germanic ancestry, but now it’s got a latin stepdad.
minus-squareStern@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·10 hours agoThoreau called it “brain-rot” in ‘Walden’, but kids these days think that’s a minus key rather then a dash so…
It’s a compound noun, only reason it’s not regarded as a single word is because English has a weird orthography.
I all other germanic languages it would be spelled as ‘brainrot’, but noooo, English has to be weird about it.
English night have Germanic ancestry, but now it’s got a latin stepdad.
Thoreau called it “brain-rot” in ‘Walden’, but kids these days think that’s a minus key rather then a dash so…