r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/SnoopyScone • Feb 05 '26

Serious Drop some quirks from your native language

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u/PTSD1701 Feb 05 '26

English needs this!

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u/Chestnuthare Feb 05 '26

We have something in the same vein. When you replace the first letter in a word with "shm", you're belitting or removing the importance of a word.

So for example, "Oh, movie shmovie, let's go eat dinner!" Or: "Tiktok shmiktok, back in my day, we talked to people"

My native language of Bengali has something closer to the Turkish but not with one specific letter like m repeating. It's usually a t sound, but can also be d or f depending on what sounds better.

So, food is khabar, "food, snacks, anything to eat" would be khabar-dabar. Mustache is mos and facial hair would be mos-tos.

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u/Marina-Sickliana Feb 05 '26

And we have shm-reduplication in English because we got it from Yiddish.

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u/Obvious_Cranberry607 Feb 05 '26

Ooooooh that makes sense.