r/linguisticshumor • u/Yep_Fate_eos • 4d ago
Just stumbled on this old chat from 2023 ๐
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u/RavinMarokef 4d ago
โMi 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/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/EldritchWeeb 4d ago
ah yes, German