Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Why I QUIT Mandarin Chinese 🇨🇳 中文" video.

@sammiller6631 "Bopomofo sounds like an Taiwanese insult or curseword." But in fact, it's just a nickname that comes from the 4 first letters of that alphabet (B, P, M, & F).
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@Ass_of_Amalek "normally such a word would indicate that gloves are a much newer adoption to the culture than shoes, but that would only make sense for a language from a place that's too warm for people to need gloves, so they only got introduced to them in modern times." I'm not sure I agree. Firstly, I would say that in a cold climate shoes are much more necessary than gloves so they might very well be an older invention. Secondly, they might have used other types of clothing for hands before gloves (e.g. mittens). Thirdly, it would be possible for the word for gloves to change. I'm not sure what's the history of gloves and shoes among Germanic peoples but, for what it's worth, Wiktionary says the following about the etymology of the word: "From Middle High German hantschuoch, from Old High German hantscuoh, from Proto-Germanic *handuskōhaz.". Proto-Germanic was spoken about 2 millennia ago so this compound word isn't new.
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@Ass_of_Amalek "what doesn't make sense is that at some point after gloves must have already been common in the region, people started seeing a need to descriptively name them hand shoes" It's not clear to me that that would be the case. Even if one of the points I made doesn't apply I still think that shoes must be an older invention than gloves.
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@Ass_of_Amalek "but gloves are older than the divergence of the various indo-germanic languages such as english that call gloves something other than hand shoes" But that doesn't mean that the word is newer than that divergence. Like I noted in my earlier comment, at least Wiktionary says that the word comes from at least Proto-Germanic which is also the ancestor for English even though English instead uses a different word. Also note that it's not rare for languages to have several synonyms for one thing. "compound words basically always are much newer" Do you have a source for this? I'm a little bit skeptical. I'm not necessarily claiming the opposite but this is a pretty strong claim so I would be curious about what it's based on. "is highly suggestive if the word being newer than the language splits to other indo-germanic languages" But at least if we are to believe the etymology given by Wiktionary the word is not newer than that. (Of course, it would be good to have a better source but I don't have an etymological dictionary.)
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