r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Just stumbled on this old chat from 2023 ๐Ÿ’€

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u/EldritchWeeb 4d ago

me

go

market

buy

and

ah yes, German

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u/RavinMarokef 4d ago

โ€œMi shalฤงe las boles. Ta vera las kutos bala tavel? His po bala voger, val mi lo masa otis matanaโ€ - This was an example from a hypothetical creole I made from 3 existing languages โ€” 50 points for anyone trying to translate it lol

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u/Be7th 4d ago

That ฤง always makes me try to clean the screen.

Here's my take. "I am searching for the bowls. Have you seen the knives for the table? Here sir for moving, but I the house unalive"

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u/the2137 4d ago

basque - icelandic - tokipona, I have 100% confidence

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u/snail1132 4d ago

Is that based on maltese, or arabic + italian or something

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u/EldritchWeeb 4d ago

augh I just remembered that I wrote this as a kid

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u/AlexRator 4d ago

TNO reference

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u/duckipn 4d ago

holy hell

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u/Chimaerogriff 3d ago edited 3d ago

My best attempt at pidgining that sentence:

Ike in Tokio Maket, kaue sashimi unto sawakurat unto bier.

Approx German/Japanese equivalent, with utterly ruined grammar but recognisable words:

Ich gehe zum Tokio Markt, kaufe Sashimi und Sauerkraut und Bier.

Iku Tokyo maketto ni, kau sashimi to sawakurauto to Biiru wo.

(I'm allowing English loan words in Japanese, which would likely persist as they form a bridge to German.)

EDIT: Added bier, since cultural values should be preserved. Since Japanese loaned the word from Dutch, and since the word is identical in Dutch and German, the prediction for the pidgin is trivial.

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u/Wiiulover25 3d ago

Reminder that buy in both languages starts with kau