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gal_girl_99

PostPosted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:28 pm
Takin' fluency to a new level, yo!

As is well known, there is an example of all three of those things in every languages (demonstrated very poorly in the sentence above). So, what does it look like in your language?  
PostPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:05 pm
Niora has a weird way of slurring. If one word ends in the same vowel that another word begins, then they're pronounced as one word.

Ex: la aku = me too; pronounced l'aku

Nothing further as far as that goes, though. 3nodding  

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Eollodwyn

PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:21 pm
Anaian' can't be slurred since every vowel is important. Rudeness is conveyed in certain particles, words, and the shortening of vowel length and syllables. Particularly polite speech conjugates certain verbs slightly differently and prepositions are treated differently.  
PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:45 pm
Nevashi has a very few idiomatic expressions, but that's it so far. I need more ordinary vocabulary before I can say anything more colorful. xp  

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:20 pm
Slurring in Pilael is quite common in some dialects, although it varies how often. In some, if two vowels are next to each other (in adjacent words) they always elide together--or less drastically, it only happens when two of the same vowel are together. In others, there is no eliding present at all.

General slang, there's a little, but...yeah... I have a couple curses. Although some are really more derogatory names and I could translate them just fine, since it's really cultural baggage that makes it bad.

MoiKafRi means "Painter." It's the worst name I've come up with.

VaxurReZa is the equivalent of "b*****d," but it's in the "Child born out of wedlock" sense. And despite literally meaning "Soulless" it's not actually an insult, it more of an informative label.

As far as being rude in general, well we have a particle for that...  
PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:54 pm
The ability to mildly mispronounce words and still be intelligible is a sign of robustness in a language; all successful natural languages have a high level of such, making them easy to speak, while things like computer languages do not, which is why tiny errors in code make debugging a hassle.
So you want to be able to slur to some extent, since linguistic drift is inevitable even for individuals.

Slurring isn't actually as big a problem as one might think; context provides a lot of information that is lost for single words. For example, every word in this story is wrong, not even using homophones but actually wrong, but you can still figure out what it's supposed to be saying.  

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:57 pm
Alutclay, if it wrnee't for the bgnruocakd and the cloros, I wuold hvae no cule waht it was. But I bet tihs was vrey smlipe to raed.  
PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:31 pm
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Alutclay, if it wrnee't for the bgnruocakd and the cloros, I wuold hvae no cule waht it was. But I bet tihs was vrey smlipe to raed.


Try reading it aloud.  

Layra-chan


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 5:57 am
Layra-chan
For example, every word in this story is wrong, not even using homophones but actually wrong, but you can still figure out what it's supposed to be saying.
The nerd inside me just squealed with joy. whee  
PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:36 pm
///"skhari", or shha-shha-mea/mao,",[consonants pronounced as part of the vowels so their are no consonant sounds. also the ea/ao, are pronounced the same, and as one vowel.]
The original pronunciation would have contained consonants, that's why their written as consonants as opposed to raised consonants, that and I'm not sure on how to represent such oddities of speech.
Hmm basically it's a curse word regarding horribly ununderstandable speech. It has a specific meaning. It's not used in relatively isolated places anyway.
Literal speech of very simple language would not be compared to it. hence the specific meaning, phew things would really qualify for being really screwed up, and screwed up in a certain way.///it's also a good demonstration of almost useless language.  

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 4:16 am
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///"skhari", or shha-shha-mea/mao,",[consonants pronounced as part of the vowels so their are no consonant sounds. also the ea/ao, are pronounced the same, and as one vowel.]
The original pronunciation would have contained consonants, that's why their written as consonants as opposed to raised consonants, that and I'm not sure on how to represent such oddities of speech.
Hmm basically it's a curse word regarding horribly ununderstandable speech. It has a specific meaning. It's not used in relatively isolated places anyway.
Literal speech of very simple language would not be compared to it. hence the specific meaning, phew things would really qualify for being really screwed up, and screwed up in a certain way.///it's also a good demonstration of almost useless language.

Conlang percieved pronounciation is aproximately //ʃ̝͡aʃ̤.ᴹəɑ//, if i remember correctly i'm also not certain of the ipa.
not particularly unusual to our ears. smile  
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