• @EvilCartyen@feddit.dk
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      2 months ago

      It’s a compound noun, only reason it’s not regarded as a single word is because English has a weird orthography.

      I all other germanic languages it would be spelled as ‘brainrot’, but noooo, English has to be weird about it.

      • SternOP
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        12 months ago

        Thoreau called it “brain-rot” in ‘Walden’, but kids these days think that’s a minus key rather then a dash so…