Hopefully this is an allowed question.
My wife is from Arroyo Limón in Oaxaca México. She speaks Chinantec pretty well but doesn't remember some words and doesn't know how to write it. I'm trying to figure out how to spell "hope" in the variant she speaks.
I told her I'd design her a new tattoo that she wants that has special significance to her and I'd really like it to include the word in the language she was raised with.
Unfortunately there are 14 variations to the language which she didn't even realize and she has no idea which variation it is. Of the words I could find the written Palantla Chinantec seemed to be close at least phonetically to me but then again I only speak English and Spanish.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to figure this out?
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.
I'd like to make a whistled variant of my clown conlang (clownlang) Plupupwe (like Sochiapam Chinantec whistling and Turkish Bird Language) , but I'm not entirely sure how to go about it. Does anyone have advice on creating a whistled language?
Currently, Plupupwe has 19 consonants and 5 vowels with length distinction. It has no tone and a CCVC maximal syllable structure. I suspect I will have to lose consonant distinctions and/or evolve tone to make a whistled language work.
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!
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
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
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.
I won't be doing that today!
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
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There hasn't been a post all year!
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
You take away their little brooms
It was about a weak back.
And then shook his arm really fast.
(True story, please groan with me.)
