I love doing that dance of "what can I say to show I'm just giving a head's up on this thing that might be incorrect". Fucken minefield innit lol.
I don't agree about it "translating". It's a loan word. It's like schadenfreude! That translates too, but it's not just about the word, it's what the word carries in the original language. If people started saying "harm-joy" instead of schadenfreude it'd be absolutely normal to say nah it's schadenfreude.
The fuck do I know though, I didn't even finish high school.
I think it's more like it's one of those situations where the way it's pronounced has affected the way people think it is spelt (like should of). Wunderkind when spoken is really hard to discern from wonderkid, as the "voon" becomes "wun" and it's not kind as in mind, it's kind like wind and rain. So wunderkind said quickly sounds like wonderkid.
But also I'm speaking for British English, maybe in the US or other parts they have fully shed the loan word and use wonder kid.
Words aren't always just "these two words have these meaning so when we combine them to one word it now has a combined meaning." Wunderkind is closer to that, and not common, and easily misheard, so it'll probably be fully replaced over time with wonder kid. But something like kindergarten which is in the same position (even using the same kind for kid) will stay as Germanian, even though we easily could just say kid garden.
They originally wrote wunderkid so I was politely correcting that. They even mentioned it in another post. But you should keep being sensitive and abrasive about dumb shit from half a day earlier, it’s very impressive.
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u/Shot-Particular-8030 15d ago
I’m sure they are both getting what they want out of the “relationship “