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Re:Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language by rcme on Sunday April 16, 2023 @01:08PM (#35591903)
In English you can say "One beer please."
Re:Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language by photonbeam on Sunday April 16, 2023 @01:11PM (#35591946)
Or “Beer me”.
Re:Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language by mirthflat83 on Sunday April 16, 2023 @01:19PM (#35592063)
Or “Beer”.
Re:Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language by hinkley on Sunday April 16, 2023 @01:25PM (#35592156)
NORM!
Re:Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language by Affric on Sunday April 16, 2023 @08:11PM (#35595351)
You can even get two of them down to a single syllable.

"Beer?"

"Loo?"

"Wifi?"

Written with an extra character which indicates tone. English has the meaningless 'do' but even that can be done away with should you so choose.

I always think like whenever these comparisons are made people they're from people who must think in quite stilted English because of their education.

There are some interesting comparisons to be made but comparing highly formalised english as though it's the only way to speak it is not how they should be made.

Re:Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language by bee_rider on Sunday April 16, 2023 @03:10PM (#35593283)
This definitely is the one that comes to mind. It is a special case though, it would be unusual to say “soup me.”
Re:Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language by actionfromafar on Sunday April 16, 2023 @04:34PM (#35594032)
Verbing. It's a thing.
Re:Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language by bee_rider on Sunday April 16, 2023 @07:19PM (#35595080)
Sure is.

It is funny that verbing is thought of as a sort of language hack. Meanwhile, nouning is basically built into the language via the -er suffix.

Re:Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language by ummonk on Sunday April 16, 2023 @01:34PM (#35592274)
"You have wifi?"