ickplant@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5 days agoPoor doggolemmy.worldimagemessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up12
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minus-squareTartas1995@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoAs a serious question, what makes you feel like you have to correct a deliberate choice of a word? What about that choice makes you feel like that? What bothers you about it?
minus-squareryedaft@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoDoggo is diminutive, indicating that the dog is cute. Romance languages have been doing this forever and it is also valid in Germanic languages.
*dog, the word is dog.
As a serious question, what makes you feel like you have to correct a deliberate choice of a word? What about that choice makes you feel like that? What bothers you about it?
Yes, short for doggo.
Doggo is diminutive, indicating that the dog is cute. Romance languages have been doing this forever and it is also valid in Germanic languages.
You have that backwards…