If "infant" means child does that mean that "fant" means adult?

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• Ethanol@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨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

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  • 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is why we have “infantry.” Soldiers who don’t speak and follow orders

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  • Gilles_D@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a side note here, Fanta was derived from the German word „Fantasie“. I don’t think it needs translating.

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Side note on the side note: Fanta was invented in nazi Germany because they couldn’t import all the ingredients for Cola

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    • z500@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🇬🇧 fantasy
      🇮🇹 fantasia
      🇫🇷 fantaisie
      🇨🇿 fantazie
      🇸🇰 fantazia
      🇷🇺 фантазия 🇩🇪 FANTASIE

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    • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah yes, a reference to the thousand year dream /s

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  • LolaCat@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So it wouldn’t be technically wrong to refer to mute people as infants right? /s

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    • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?

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  • squaresinger@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean, what am I fanting about?

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• pao@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If infancy is childhood, is adulthood fancy?

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  • Pirasp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It sure as shit doesn’t feel fancy

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    • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Try it again, but with your pinky out.

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• AnarchistsForDemocracy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And what does that say about Infantry?

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  • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It says that it’s cheaper than adultry.

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    • Pirasp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also better for your marriage

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• CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Both of those are below elefants

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks like it means unable + to speak.

  www.etymonline.com/word/infant

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  • Hack3900@lemy.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If your drink is talking you should already not be driving

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just fan’t

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  • schrodingers_dinger@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    💨

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• Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The in is not a prefix here. That’s just how the word is spelled.

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  • squaresinger@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨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”.

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• Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No

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