I was on the train home today when I caught sight of a man wearing a jacket with this written on his sleeve: "非常に次の世界” which sort of translates loosely to "extremely the next world" (?) unless this is some new funky Japanese that I haven't learnt about yet.
Hmm...makes you think, doesn't it? We keep chortling whenever people slip up in English and yet when the reverse happens, there's usually not all that much negativity linked to it.
Ah well, "one should not mock others for mistakes that they themselves are also liable to make" - my fortune cookie wisdom for the day.
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while i do agree with you, but i can't stop thinking that it's possible one consequence of modern day languages...
what i mean is, languages that are common in usage will change and acquire "new meanings", even though it may be syntactically, grammatically, and semantically incorrect. (that's a lot of ly there)
one example i can think of now, is the word "brokeback"
amongst my canto- friends, which is used in relation to homosexuality now~!
and one final note, latin doesn't acquire new meaning because it's dead! that's why scientists luvvv to use it to name things
er.. kkfc01, you do realise that none of that made sense?
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