Don’t drink fant drinks when you drive!
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?
If "infant" means child does that mean that "fant" means adult?
Submitted 11 months ago by squaresinger@feddit.de to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
squaresinger@feddit.de 11 months ago
You mean, what am I fanting about?
pao@feddit.de 11 months ago
If infancy is childhood, is adulthood fancy?
Pirasp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It sure as shit doesn’t feel fancy
ripcord@kbin.social 11 months ago
Try it again, but with your pinky out.
AnarchistsForDemocracy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And what does that say about Infantry?
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
It says that it’s cheaper than adultry.
Pirasp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also better for your marriage
CarlsIII@kbin.social 11 months ago
Both of those are below elefants
reddig33@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Looks like it means unable + to speak.
Hack3900@lemy.lol 11 months ago
If your drink is talking you should already not be driving
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I just fan’t
schrodingers_dinger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
💨
Dkarma@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The in is not a prefix here. That’s just how the word is spelled.
squaresinger@feddit.de 11 months ago
Actually, it is.
It derives from Latin infans where “in-” is a negation prefix and “fans” is the present participle form of “for”, which translates to “to speak”.
So an infant is a non-speaker (too small to speak).
But my opener was of course a joke, where I purpously misunderstood what “fant” is derived of, by claiming that “fant” must be the opposite of a child, thus an adult.
There are tons of Latin words in the English language and many of them only survived in English in their compounded form (e.g. “in-fant”, where no other version of the actual verb in there survived, except the negated form).
Often the parts of these Latin root words have no meaning at all anymore in English, so that people don’t notice that they are actually using compound words and also the original meaning of the word is forgotten.
Not a lot of people would associate “infant” with “hearing”.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
No
Ethanol@pawb.social 11 months ago
According to wiktionary infant comes from the Latin word infans, meaning “unable to speak”. The term fans means “to speak”.
Not sure if your Fanta can speak though :P
Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We’re fans, yo!
6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Which is why we have “infantry.” Soldiers who don’t speak and follow orders
Gilles_D@feddit.de 11 months ago
As a side note here, Fanta was derived from the German word „Fantasie“. I don’t think it needs translating.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Side note on the side note: Fanta was invented in nazi Germany because they couldn’t import all the ingredients for Cola
z500@startrek.website 11 months ago
🇬🇧 fantasy
🇮🇹 fantasia
🇫🇷 fantaisie
🇨🇿 fantazie
🇸🇰 fantazia
🇷🇺 фантазия 🇩🇪 FANTASIE
idunnololz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ah yes, a reference to the thousand year dream /s
LolaCat@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
So it wouldn’t be technically wrong to refer to mute people as infants right? /s
SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Probably falls into the same or similar category as calling them dumb, ones open a time an acceptable word to call them, but not really today. You know unless you are looking to insult them for being mute.