stemy@lemmy.ml to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoThis comic is sadly not so parodicpixelfed.socialexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down16
arrow-up1161arrow-down1external-linkThis comic is sadly not so parodicpixelfed.socialstemy@lemmy.ml to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square8linkfedilink
minus-squareartifex@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·4 months agoIs parodic a word?
minus-squareAliasVortex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 months agoIt’s the adjective form of parody. That said, English is the kind of language where you can absolutely invent words and let context clues fill in the blanks for what the words mean.
minus-squareKSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoA lot of languages have that, it’s not just English In fact I feel English is relatively low on the scale of word inventing, some languages get crazy with it
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThe flexibility of the English language should be celebrated for this sort of thing.
minus-squaresik0fewl@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoIt’s a perfectly cromulent word.
Is parodic a word?
It’s the adjective form of parody.
That said, English is the kind of language where you can absolutely invent words and let context clues fill in the blanks for what the words mean.
A lot of languages have that, it’s not just English
In fact I feel English is relatively low on the scale of word inventing, some languages get crazy with it
The flexibility of the English language should be celebrated for this sort of thing.
It is now!
It’s a perfectly cromulent word.