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andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Hiro8811@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Inundated? Is that an English word or are you Romanian?

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  • eltrain123@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe run a quick google search before asking an educator if they know words…

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    • Skates@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s very common in Romanian to

      1. Not know a lot of English and

      2. Use a Romanian word and make it sound kind of English to make a point

      Eg: “I gatated dinner” - ‘a găti’ = to cook -> I gateted dinner ~= I cooked dinner.

      This is a bad example, but you hopefully get what I’m explaining.

      In this context, ‘a inunda’ is a verb in Romanian, it means “to flood (something)”. If you’re Romanian and you don’t know the word exists in English, ‘inundated’ sounds like one of those made-up “verb+ed” constructions.

      So while it’s a silly question for someone who doesn’t know Romanian, it’s also a valid question for someone who has heard these types of bad constructions before, and has never heard of the English verb “to inundate”.

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      • Moghul@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah but the other guy could’ve pasted that word in the nearest search bar, gotten their answer, and not looked dumb.

        Also maybe it’s a newer thing but I don’t think I’ve heard people put that suffix on the end of words outside of trying to be funny by sounding dumb.

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Guess I can add Romanian to my CV…

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      • pythonoob@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        A simple Google search would show you that inundate is a valid English word and in fact used appropriately in the given context.

        Really weird point to go so far on…

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  • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s English, it means flooded/swamped.

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    • Hiro8811@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guessed that much but it’s very similar to “inundat” which also means flooded

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  • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is this the proud ignorance I’ve heard about? Was this a poorly executed joke?

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  • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a synonym for “overloaded.”

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