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[+] -16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's why every European language just slaps an accent mark on the word "airplane" because we invented the tech and created the name, so they just adapted it to fit the pronunciation of the phonetics in their own vocabulary.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    𝕱𝖑𝖚𝖌𝖟𝖊𝖚𝖌 would like a word

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Honestly I can't think of a single European language where it is the case. German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Basque... none of them sound like airplane.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean, Spanish uses el avión and el aeroplane and Italian is l' aero which is just short for l' aeroplano. Gotta give him that.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well because the words for air are aire and aria in Spanish and Italian respectively, and you know, aircraft fly through the air.

    Other languages base the word on the word fly. It would be weird naming the concept without using the words air of fly.

    Helicopter is a better example, while we're on the topic of flying machines.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm wondering why they didn't choose a word like Television for this.

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  • [+] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Germany is the red headed step child lol

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The Deutsch and their « zeugs  and Dings »

    I love that a culture so associated with attention to detail and precision engineering is just like « flugzeug, fuerzeug, schlagzeug, schreibzeug… »

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