Philo to [email protected] • edit-21 year agoWhomever named lisp was extremely cruel because those who have it can't pronounce it. message-square15fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up172arrow-down1message-squareWhomever named lisp was extremely cruel because those who have it can't pronounce it. Philo to [email protected] • edit-21 year agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•1 year agoSame thing with the guy who named it ‘dyslexia.’
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoThis word is actually not named maliciously at all. From Greek: “Dys,” meaning “bad,” or “abnormal,” like in Dysfunctional “Lexia” from “Lexis,” meaning “reading.” Think of “lexicon.” So now you have a perfectly normal word in Greek that came to the modern age and now is ironic because it’s not exactly native
Same thing with the guy who named it ‘dyslexia.’
This word is actually not named maliciously at all. From Greek:
“Dys,” meaning “bad,” or “abnormal,” like in Dysfunctional
“Lexia” from “Lexis,” meaning “reading.” Think of “lexicon.”
So now you have a perfectly normal word in Greek that came to the modern age and now is ironic because it’s not exactly native