In any language, any one of us has certain words or phrases they like to say.

For me, in English, that includes “bedazzled” and “thingamagick” among others.

Howrver, is there some kind of overarching expression for these words? I can’t think of anything in English or my native German, and a quick Internet search didn’t find anything.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    20·
    4 months ago

    No problem. Just make one up!

    Sprechspaßwort = speak fun word

    Alternatively Sprachspaßwort, meaning language fun word.

    I think I like the latter.

    • 667@lemmy.radioEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      This is the real value of agglutinative languages. We sort of try it in English but it doesn’t always work. I don’t speak German, but I recognize the word roots.

    • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
      3·
      4 months ago

      Sprachspaßwort sounds like something straight out of a law or industry standard which I guess that makes it heterological.