what are some autistic things about your language?
in english there's collective nouns, groups of animals have different names based on the animal, a group of rats is a mischief, a group of crows is a murder, a group of frogs is a knot
does your language have collective nouns? are any of them words used otherwise? or just something odd about your language?
yes
We only have few words like this. Rudel for wolves and lions. Herde for cows, zebras, elephants, seals etc, Schule (school) for dolphins and wales. Schwarm for birds, fish and flying insects.
Most autistic thing is pic related tbqh
There's also Rotte for boar, but I can't think of anything else.
In English, the Sun, Moon, and the planets in our solar system can be called "he" or "she". All of them have a designated gender that they're supposed to be called. Mostly people will call them "it", but like how sometimes people will call a ship "she", this still exists to an extent.
Sun - he
Mercury - he
Venus - she
Earth - she
Moon - she
Mars - he
Jupiter - he
Saturn - he
Uranus - he
Neptune - he
I always thought of Saturn as a female.
Don't leave out Pluto REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>Sun - he
>Moon - she
wtf, we do it the other way round, makes more sense.
Pluto is canonically "he" I think.
Romance influence
Helios is male and Selene is female
Yeah I knew that meds for doing this shit, but I thought Anglos were maybe cool
The Sun is bigger and more powerful, so it's male.
In Scots you don't use plurals for measurements and refer to "me" as us sometimes.
Also sometimes word order changes, very rarely, from SVO to SOV.
Yeah but also the beginning of everything, mother of life etc. Like Gaia or some shit.
when normal person laughs we say "he he"
when Michael Jackson laughs we say "HEE HEE"
Earth is Gaia.
I know. But it's something similar. It spends life. Whereas the moon is just a dumb cold rock without purpose. Why make it female?
Frenchfags has no right to complain. Ever seen how those fucking niggers say "90"?
Because it's small and weak.
They have their own problems, yes. But we should just change it to Zehnneundreißigundsechs
the swedish standard language can't decide where to put the 'the'.
Båten boat-the the boat
Den stora båten the big boat-the
This here / this that and we say 'it looks good out'.
Yes, but those are largely memes at this point. I don’t know anyone who actually calls a group of frogs a knot. I didnt even know that one until you said it.
Most of those animal collective words are not in common use.
So they're just the gender of the god it was named after?
about fish we have кocяк (kosiak) word.
for example.
We also have a pretty much wide swearing words building system. 6-5 roots can generate pretty much infinit number of differen swears!
My favorite one is the verb Ocкoтoёбитьcя [oskotoyobit'sia]
there are two roots this word's made of: "skot" (cattle) and "yob" (fuck)
prefix 'o-' tells us that smth has became this particular thing or gained one's state.
And '-t'sya' part just marks its infinitive form
o+skot+(o)+yob+(i)+t'sya literally means "To become fucked as cattle/cattle-fucked".
We generally have pretty much wide worldbuilding system but swearings are just the field of folk's creativity.