Aymara Language Puns

Trolls believe they move through time from the future into the past, because they cannot see the future, so it must be behind them, but they can see the future so it must go in front. Apperently the Aymara people in Bolivia say that the future is in behind them, and the past is in front of them. This is also the case in Quechua. I wonder of Sir Perry knew about it. Most of the discussion online go back to this 2006 article: https://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~nunez/web/FINALpblshd.pdf

https://youtu.be/rSoFDivGIdc?t=180

The ladies or one of them are speaking Aymara what do they both say?

Thanks

Aymara (/aɪməˈrɑː/; Aymar aru) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes Mountains. It is one of the few indigenous American languages with over one million speakers (coincidentally another, perhaps more famous one, is Quechua, which is spoken in roughly the same area). Aymara is an official language in both Peru and Bolivia and is a recognized minority language in Chile, where it is spoken, to a much smaller extent, by some communities in the northern part of the country.

Linguistics

Aymara is an Aymaran language, one of the two dominant language families of the central Andes (Quechuan being the other). Being an Aymaran language, this makes Aymara related to Jaqaru, the only other known Aymaran language (though there are some highly divergent dialects in both languages that could be classified as languages in their own right). Several attempts have been made to link the Aymaran languages to the Quechuan ones, in a grouping called Quechumaran, though this has not been proven to the satisfaction of most linguists, who accept that the highly convergent phonologies are an areal feature.

Classification

Aymara's full classification is as follows:

Aymaran > Aymara

Phonology and Phonotactics

Aymara has 26 consonant phonemes, which carry most of the functional load of the language and are very clearly articulated. Voiceless occlusives account for 15 out of the 26 consonants. These are distinguished at five positions and by three manners: voiceless, aspirated and glottalized (i.e. ejectives). There are three fricative phonemes in Aymara: /s/, /χ/ and /h/. Likewise, three nasal phonemes are contrastive: /m/, /n/ and /ñ/ (voiced alveo-palatal nasal, grammar author's notation). Regarding resonants, several different contrasts can be delineated. There are two voiced [laterals] (/l/ and (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_consonant), which contra

So I saw the recently posted article about the Indigenous Language Challenge, and I decided to learn Aymara (as my campus's Engineers Without Borders is doing work in Bolivia with the Aymara). Does anybody have a resource for a sufficient corpus of Aymara?

One of the problems in linguistics academia is that the vast majority of research is focused on widely spoken nation-level languages, such as English, Mandarin, or Spanish.

I've thought of a few reasons for this sample bias:

• The motivation from the researchers. Many researchers feel more motivated to work on languages they are already familiar with, which tend to be widely spoken languages.

• The motivation from the job market. Linguistic research is often conducted in departments dedicated to widely spoken languages (such as English departments), simply because there are more students interested in learning French or Mandarin than Igbo or Aymara. So the job market and the funding agencies tend to be more favorable towards research on nation-level languages than minority languages.

• Research on popular languages tends to be more popular. A paper that claims something about Japanese will probably gain more attention than a paper that claims something about Khoekhoegowab. So the researchers are more motivated to work on more popular languages.

In your opinion, how much of a problem is this sample bias in contemporary linguistics, and what are the ways we can overcome it?

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Or would that be too forward thinking?