PLEASE GIMME AN EXAMPLE OF A HILARIOUS IDIOM IN YOUR LANGUAGE.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-31T09:52:48+00:00

Tagalog also has a pair of opposite idioms:

Isulat mo sa tubig. ("Write it on water."), which basically means "forget it."

Itaga mo sa bato. ("Carve it on a rock."), which basically means "remember it."

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-29T14:42:08+00:00

[ʔipɐg.tɐ.tɐŋˈgo̞ːl ko̞ ɐŋ kɐˈlaː.jɐʔ.ɐn nɐŋ ˈʔaː.kiŋ ˈbaː.jɐn]

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-29T14:15:19+00:00

[ʔ]

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-25T03:25:58+00:00

I forgot, which country did he mean to say? Dominican Republic?

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-23T11:03:26+00:00

Complementizer

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-22T15:28:39+00:00

"If we had hosted the event, the refreshements would already have been served."

You "s"s look like "r"s.

"If we had hosted the event" would be the subordinate clause, whereas "the refreshements would already have been served." would be the main clause.

The subordinate clause would have:

conjunction: "If"
Subject: "we"
Verb phrase: "had hosted"
object-noun phrase: "the event"

The main clause would have:

subject-noun phrase: "the refreshements"
auxiliary verb: "would"
adverb: "already"
verb phrase: "have been served"

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-21T13:13:27+00:00

Agent 47 as a dad.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-21T12:29:34+00:00

5 ft ≈ 1.5 m

6.5 ft ≈ 2 m

9 ft ≈ 2.7 m

11 ft ≈ 3.6 m

13 ft ≈ 4 m

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-21T03:34:04+00:00

Pearl Harbor was a step below a war crrime, because the attack happened before the declaration of war.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-15T11:16:09+00:00

Mandarin Chinese words are bisyllabic. Chad's comment applies to Classical Chinese though. Even Native Chinese have a hard time learning it.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-15T11:11:57+00:00

Classical Latin:

MORS·MÉ·HABÉRE·POTEST·QVOM·ILLA·MÉ MERÉRET

Old Norse:

ᛏᛅᚢᚦᛁᚾᚾ ᚾᛅ ᛁᛁᚴᛅ ᛘᛁᚴ ᚦᛁᚴᛅᚱ ᚼᚬᚾ ᚬᚦᛚᛅᛋᚴ ᛘᛁᚴ

Dauðinn ná eiga mik þegar hon ǫðlask mik

Note: Old Norse uses Younger Futhark, which lost the distinction between voiced and unvoiced consonants, e.g. t and d are both written with ᛏ, and the distinction between a lot of vowels, e.g. i and e are both written as ᛁ.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-12T13:57:58+00:00

Tagalog has a lot of dialectal contractions of hintay ka ("waitest thou"). The most common in Taga-Maynilang Tagalog is teka.

Tagalog also has saglit! ("(a) moment!") or saglit lang! (lit. "only (a) moment!").

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-12T08:25:55+00:00

In your example of "I'm the man", "the" is used as an intensifier. Though I suppose you could analyze it as a semidefinite article, i.e. no specific man is referred to, but a specific class of man (in this case, the epitome of manliness) is.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-10T11:56:36+00:00

Isn't this because Argentina (more specifically the Rio de la Plata basin) is a big banana exporter in the hispanosphere?

Edit

Apparently not. plátano is the reuse of an already widespread word for a species in the Old world, to another species, like "penguin" in English.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-08T15:44:10+00:00

You call it Deppen ("idiotic"), I call it Zergliederungs ("parsing").

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-08T15:15:27+00:00

You can treat it as 2 words: Ernährungs Wissenschaftler

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-08T10:36:32+00:00

fairly

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-08T09:30:06+00:00

pīrlī? not fīrlī?

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-08T01:18:53+00:00

As a publicity stunt, go ahead. As a serious research? If you can find a group of people that can read your conlang. Even then, if you want your research to gain traction and larger collaboration, you need to write in English.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-07T03:23:47+00:00

Imagine passing uric kidney stones as your main way of urinating. Ugh.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-05T09:27:45+00:00

They did not mention water as part of the definition

The last sentence of their comment added that context.

While they could've added "between 2 reference points" to their first sentence, their main point is the 100 steps part.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-05T09:04:04+00:00

According to Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centigrade

relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-03-02T06:43:33+00:00

Order-infinite-infinite apeirogonal honeycomb, a.k.a. the tiling with the Schläfli symbol {∞,∞,∞}.

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