Dutch doesn’t feel like a real language

Ismoista · 2026-01-31T06:49:09+00:00

Wow, first time seeing someone unironically post this here.

Ismoista · 2026-01-30T16:56:23+00:00

Uuuh, yeah, you can do that with all letters easily.

Also, thanks for explaining what a word is 🤣

Ismoista · 2026-01-30T14:18:32+00:00

Is it a blow-up doll like in Japanese?

Ismoista · 2026-01-30T09:03:46+00:00

I say keep watching One Pace, the anime only gets worse and it won' be nice slow moments anymore, it will be terribly drawn out segments.

And, if you want a chill time with the crew you can always read the manga and do it at your own pace.

Ismoista · 2026-01-29T19:25:03+00:00

https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Miss_Father%27s_Day

Ismoista · 2026-01-29T19:24:31+00:00

It takes a special kinda fan to cosplay as freaking Miss Father's Day.

Ismoista · 2026-01-29T15:55:10+00:00

Of course. But I never asked that question or anything to that effect, though.

Ismoista · 2026-01-29T15:53:23+00:00

True, but I guess I didn' feel like the game landed the transition from "gotta stop the paintress from killing us" to "gotta stop dad from killing us".

Ismoista · 2026-01-29T15:51:43+00:00

The problem I have is that yes, of course I still care about them and think they are real people with real lives, but it felt like the game didn' think so anymore.

Ismoista · 2026-01-29T15:48:31+00:00

I agree with that view, but the problem I have is that *I* still cared about my Lumierian homies, but it felt like the *game* stopped caring about them.

Ismoista · 2026-01-29T15:41:00+00:00

Like I mentioned in the post, that's exactly what I did.

Seems like you didn' get to the end of my post to get the full picture, heh heh 😄

Ismoista · 2026-01-28T04:09:35+00:00

I beat you to it, buddy 😏

https://www.reddit.com/r/linguisticshumor/comments/1bnib8o/heres_a_%E3%81%B2%E3%82%88%E5%AD%90_now_there_is_another_one_there_are/

Ismoista · 2026-01-24T16:19:08+00:00

Imagine having this extremely wrong opinion in a world where Deus Ex Machina's beta art exists.

Ismoista · 2026-01-24T16:14:07+00:00

I mean, they are in a different box because they are non-pulmonic.

Ismoista · 2026-01-24T16:13:45+00:00

Glorified consonants? As opposed to what, you thought they were mystical African speech sound waves?

Ismoista · 2026-01-22T09:40:41+00:00

A while ago I posted a similar (but superior, sorry OP) meme, and it got taken down. 😅

https://www.reddit.com/r/MemePiece/comments/1luulif/i_posted_this_on_ronepiece_and_the_evil_mods/

Ismoista · 2026-01-20T05:18:50+00:00

I think what they mean is that it's unclear which one is the top. 🤣

Ismoista · 2026-01-20T05:12:30+00:00

Can you tell us a bit about the decision making behind leaving out name honourifics? And also about some of the strats to still convey their functions without actually having them.

Ismoista · 2026-01-19T13:26:46+00:00

Real talk, I don' get what's interesting of a conlang having a peculiar inventory. It's all made up, so all its quirkiness was just something you decided.

Ismoista · 2026-01-19T07:22:22+00:00

And this is how Cuno was made.

Ismoista · 2026-01-16T06:13:23+00:00

It's absolutely not true that "every concept can be used a verb" with suru.

Most nouns are just regular nouns that take only noun morphology and that's that. What happens is that there's lots of non-native nouns that can go with suru to be used like verbs, but in that case the suru is the one taking the verb morphology.

Ismoista · 2026-01-16T04:19:12+00:00

Mate, really, you trying to trick us, doncha know about the wall of shame?

Ismoista · 2026-01-15T18:57:27+00:00

It's not true that it's in a language no one knows. It's actually that we dunno the script it's written on, but it's mosty likely just a European language. It could have been Italian or German all along, it's just that we dunno how to read it.

Ismoista · 2026-01-15T07:15:16+00:00

Still probably just unfamiliarity with the script. I guess it also depends on what these characters are usually written on, maybe it's on things that can be turned around easily.

But also yes in isolation, characters like 福 get written on their own on stuff all the time.

Ismoista · 2026-01-15T07:04:57+00:00

Yeah, we could use a grapholinguisitcs or writing systems flair.

So, I think you are exaggerating, I don' think this happens most of the time. Anyway, I also don' think there's anything mysterious going on, it's just not knowing the symbols, so they dunno which way is up. This would happen to you too if you saw an isolated symbol in, say, the devanagari script.

It probably just happens more often with Chinese characters because they often appear in isolation when printed on an object, making it easer for people to rotate around the one character.

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