Timeline for Equivalent English word for the concept of "Särskrivning" in Swedish
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| Mar 7, 2020 at 18:40 | comment | added | Greybeard | See also english.stackexchange.com/questions/244523/… | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 1:36 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Anonym What you’re referring to is rebracketing or metanalysis, an entirely different thing. This is about open, closed, and hyphenated compounds—more specifically indicating the compoundness in an incorrect manner: writing ‘water fall’ instead of ‘waterfall’ or ‘wishingwell’ instead of ‘wishing well’. In Swedish, compounds are (nearly) always written closed, so the word that means to write them open has taken on the meaning of incorrectly writing them open. I don’t believe there is a word for that in English. | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 23:54 | answer | added | BlokeDownThePub | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 18:17 | vote | accept | Dave Carlile | ||
| Jun 9, 2016 at 14:23 | answer | added | Sue | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 17:45 | comment | added | Dave Carlile | And ground hog... guess I've never had a pork burger, but surely such a thing exists. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 17:43 | comment | added | Dave Carlile | Yes, of course I do. ;) Your examples are about a word within a word. My question is about compound words, and a word that means not writing the compound word properly (and the Swedish disdain for not writing them properly). I can't even make a mental stretch to see how those two things are similar in any way, other than that they both involve words. But then we'd have to just have a single question available here if that is the standard for dups. :p | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 17:40 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Well that's why I didn't post it as a duplicate, I in actual fact did re-read it.See my comment above. I think the questions are closely related though. You'll probably disagree. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 17:38 | comment | added | Dave Carlile | @Mari-LouA No, OP is still here. If you think my question is a duplicate of those then you're not even close to understanding my question and might want to re-read it again. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 17:26 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Flying butter (butterfly), a bottle that is blue (bluebottle), a house that is green (greenhouse), a fork in an elevator (forklift), a father who is wonderful (grandfather) etc.. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 17:19 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Ground hog, as in "minced" (BrEng) hog meat? A type of burger? I don't think I have ever heard of that particular dish. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 17:14 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | If I post this as a duplicate the Q will be automatically closed. I have what SE calls a "dupe hammer", or words to that effect. But this Q has been asked several times before: 1. Word for “No I in Team” 2. What is the name for a word that contains other words? 3. Is there a term for a word inside another word? | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 16:42 | comment | added | user121868 | For the purpose of enhancing my answer - is Särskrivning a verb or a noun? Would we call one of these a "Särskrivning" or the process of making them "Särskrivning"? | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 16:40 | answer | added | user121868 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 16:31 | comment | added | user121868 | "What Microsoft Word does when I type in a fictional word" wouldn't be a suitable answer, would it? | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 17:26 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/740233606874992640 | ||
| Jun 5, 2016 at 23:15 | comment | added | user3847 | In English splitting a compound word is more a matter of timing and rhythm of speech than the actual splitting of a written compound word. For example, a person might say the word 'waitingroom' with equal emphasis and timing on 'waiting' and 'room'. It sounds strange, as if a room is waiting for something to happen. But if the emphasis is on 'waiting' and a reduced weight on the word 'room', it's a room for waiting.I don't think there is a word to cover these shifts of emphasis. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 18:27 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| May 15, 2016 at 0:22 | comment | added | Anonym | This phenomenon is called misdivision and has produced such results as a newt for earlier an ewt, an umpire from earlier a numpire, and many others. | |
| May 9, 2016 at 1:33 | comment | added | silvascientist | Reading through the blog post should help you understand the most likely English perspective on this distinctively Swedish phenomenon - befuddlement. | |
| May 8, 2016 at 15:17 | comment | added | Dave Carlile | Maybe "concept" isn't the right word since I only have a vague understanding that may be entirely wrong - but combining words in Swedish is seemingly very common and some people (in many cases older generations) can get very upset if you write the words separately when they're supposed to be together. The blog post Swedish Särskrivning is a Cultural Faux Pas is the best English discussion I can find at the moment. | |
| May 8, 2016 at 14:31 | comment | added | TimR | Not sure what the "concept" is. That a compound is greater than the sum of its parts? | |
| May 8, 2016 at 13:00 | comment | added | Dave Carlile | That's kind of what I'm expecting the answer to be. Google sometimes translates the word as "split compound" depending on context. That's probably close enough, but doesn't seem quite right. | |
| May 8, 2016 at 12:55 | comment | added | Hot Licks | It's something that's only occasionally done in English (since there aren't that many splits that would change meaning), so I doubt that one can find a recognizable term (though I suppose there may be an obscure one). | |
| May 8, 2016 at 12:40 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 8, 2016 at 12:40 | comment | added | Dan Bron | Well, I'd be tempted to call them splitting headaches.... | |
| May 8, 2016 at 12:36 | history | asked | Dave Carlile | CC BY-SA 3.0 |