sleopardsatemyface·Leopards Ate My Facebystemy This comic is sadly not so parodichttps://pixelfed.social/p/jenniebreeden/891021390534275872Open linkView original on lemmy.ml161Comments8
MMacchi_the_Slime piefed.blahaj.zone"What do you mean I'm losing my ACA benefits? I voted for Trump to get rid of that Obamacare crap, not the damn ACA!"14
AAliasVortex replylemmy.world2Hide 2 repliesIt'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.13
KSP Atlas replysopuli.xyzA 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 it2
FFrezik replylemmy.blahaj.zoneThe flexibility of the English language should be celebrated for this sort of thing.1
"What do you mean I'm losing my ACA benefits? I voted for Trump to get rid of that Obamacare crap, not the damn ACA!"
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.
Definitely not parodic. Sadly.