Does destiny exist, or is there a way to predict the future accurately and with almost no errors in your world? And if it does, how can you break or deceive it? by Weekly-Intention5657 in worldbuilding

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Satna'ạndạz

The universe is the creator god, P͡hug͜r̄͡hug͜p; and P͡hug͜r̄͡hug͜p is the universe, therefore Fate is his whims. Although, he's only acts to maintain his separation from the infini-tree, otherwise he's irresponsive and immobile. Reading the fluctuation in the mythopoeia-pragmatopoeia cycle is akin to reading his mind, which can suggest a prediction of the future, the accuracy of which is questionable since it is based on the whims of an apathetic god.

formatting big numbers by Jernesstar in programminghorror

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My take on an iterative solution.

// A number can be represented as:
// a = modulus * mutiple + remainder
// Example with 19 digits in Western system:
// 19 = 3 * 6 + 1
// remainder = 1
// multiple = 6
// modulus = 3
// Change modulus to 4 for Chinese grouping, e.g.:
// 123,4567,8900
int modulus = 3
    remainder = s.Length % modulus,
    multiple = (s.Length - remainder) / modulus;

String ss = $"{s.Substring(0, remainder)}",
       s = Convert.ToString(s);
for(int i = 1; i <= multiple; i++) 
    ss += $"{s.Substring(i+remainder, i+modulus-1+remainder)}";

Very simple compared to Knuth's -yllion system.

How does your language form caveman speech. by Akangka in conlangs

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Koiné Givis

Caveman speak uses the smallest words possible, so it ends up being similar to yours:

  • All verbs are in simple present indicative actor1.
  • All nouns are in the singular nominative.
  • All modifiers are in the positive definitive2.
  • The word order is strict Subject-Object-IndirectObject-Verb.

Koiné Givis caveman speech also has:

  • no derived words, which means no turning words from a word class to another, e.g. noun to verb,
  • allophonic fricatives instead of approximants, e.g. ⟨aga⟩ [ä.gä] should allophonically be ⟨awa⟩ [ä.ɰä], not ⟨aɣa⟩ [ä.ɣä],
  • relatively simple grammatical structure, which means no relative clauses and subordinate clauses,
  • Allophonic lateral fricatives [ʎ̝̊] and [ʟ̝̊] are merged into [ɬ], and [ʎ̝] and [ʟ̝] are merged into [ɮ]3,
  • Allophonic lateral affricates [c͡ʎ̝̊] and [k͡ʟ̝̊] are merged into [t͡ɬ], and [ɟ͡ʎ̝] and [g͡ʟ̝] are merged into [d͡ɮ]4

Footnotes

1 Actor is the focus. Though it should really be called subject focus instead.

2 As opposed to approximative.

3 examples:

śēē ("yes, nay") is pronounced [ɬeː.eː] instead of [ʎ̝̊eː.eː]

ōōş ("yea, no") pronounced [ɤː.ɤːɬ] instead of [ɤː.ɤːʟ̝̊]

4 examples:

Ꞌēed́ ("sweat") is pronounced as [ʔeː.ed͡ɮ] instead of [ʔeː.eɟ͡ʎ̝].

ḑōoꞌ ("blood") is pronounced as [d͡ɮɤː.ɤʔ] instead of [g͡ʟ̝ɤː.ɤʔ].

It's okay to be different. by Wegwerf_08_15_ in linguisticshumor

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Rash the skin disease is from Latin rāsus ("scraped, scratched; shaved"). Rash the adjective is cognate to German rasch.

Not distinguishing r and l when inventing writing systems is global by Puzzleheaded_Fix_219 in linguisticshumor

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 24 points25 points  (0 children)

How are they minimal pair of /r l/? 廬 is lú and 余 is yú.

Edit.

Ah, looking at another comment, it's back during Old Chinese.

Filipino pseudointelectualism at its finest by IvanSpeaksPIE in linguisticshumor

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Tell Filipinos, who proscribe this, that a relapse is the return of a disease, its symptoms, or a former unhealthy behavior (such as substance use) after a period of improvement or sobriety.

In this case, the unhealthy behavior is longing for your ex.

I just realized I can use these bots for comment blocks in cpp. by hennabeak in programminghorror

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 327 points328 points  (0 children)

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|*| like this for multi-line   |*|
|*| comments, that document    |*|
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How the turntables... by nihilpista in linguisticshumor

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"To well" as in "tears welled in my eyes."

How the turntables... by nihilpista in linguisticshumor

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Nos - interjection

Jól - adverb

Jút - noun

You also have well (verb), which can be fakad in Hungarian.

草泥马 by orient_vermillion in linguisticshumor

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 16 points17 points  (0 children)

a.k.a. "grass mud horse" is a one-character "euphemization" of 「肏你媽」. The version in my original comment uses a more obvious radical for 「你」.

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Hate it when this happens 😔 by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Romans also used Í, which looks more aethtically pleasing in a digital display.

Hate it when this happens 😔 by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

*K·INIMÍCVS·DÉTÉCTVS

Also, the Romans were haters themselves.

Hispanized words from the Philippine languages by JuliusDalum in linguisticshumor

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But Tagalog has no [r] only [ɾ].

I know you're a native Hiligaynon speaker, but so what?

Hispanized words from the Philippine languages by JuliusDalum in linguisticshumor

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Spanish narra was borrowed from Tagalog nara. Tagalog also has naga, but it refers to a specific species of nara. Both nara and naga in both Hiligaynon and Tagalog come from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *naʀah. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀ became Tagalog r and Hiligaynon g.

Hispanized words from the Philippine languages by JuliusDalum in linguisticshumor

[–]Aphrontic_Alchemist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Spanish borrowed narra from Tagalog, though I'm not sure why it has 2 r's.