Kikuyu Language Puns

The Kikuyu language the letters ĩ and ũ, whereas many other languages of Africa use ɛ and ɔ or é and ó.

Why is Kikuyu different in this way? Are there other languages in Africa or elsewhere that use these letters with tildes above similarly to Kikuyu?

… Without consulting me or our two sons he canceled our plans and abandoned us. Left at 9:00, still not home. My oldest son confused where baba is.

For context: I’m American, he’s Kenyan. We’re back home for the next 2.5 months from the US. We’ve been together for over 15 years with two young sons. Today we were supposed to visit his sister and nephews. Our oldest boy (4.5) kept complaining about it being boring to go. He doesn’t know anything, hasn’t been since he was 7 months. Sometimes I find it’s good to acknowledge your kids feelings so you can move on. So I told our son, you might be bored. They’ll be speaking kikuyu. Then I added, you’ll play with your cousins who are your age, and he got excited. Anyway, with that my husband got pissed, cancelled our visit, and left. It’s now 4:30 and he’s still gone.

He’s accusing me of being dumb with my words and indoctrinating our kids to dislike Kenya. I’ve invested all our savings and finances into a future life in Kenya. I think the accusations are one thing that can be talked through, but to cancel our plans and walk out on us without any conversation or seeking to understand is totally unacceptable. And he’s left us isolated and unable to make plans because I don’t know when he’s coming or going.

Is this acceptable behavior to people on this subreddit?

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!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

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!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Like "valishwa kanzu" or "kanyaga nyoka" as they relate to football

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 "

I won't be doing that today!

I (31F) just ended a 3+ yr relationship with my (30M) boyfriend.

My relationship has had a lot of ups and down ms and I have gone through a lot of emotional upheaval in it and now I just need to get some things off my chest so that I can at least prove to myself I wasn't the crazy one or I didn't get things wrong after all.

A little background on it

We met during a period of my life where I had gotten things under control with who I was and what I wanted in life and he was also facing some shit in his life.

We started of great and to be honest this was the most meaningful relationship I had ever had so basically you can say I was completely in love and nothing anyone would say or do would have changed my mind. But there were some red flags I clearly ignored knowingly and some of them did come to bite me in the ass at the end.

His story was that he lost his mum when he was young and he was the only parent he knew, his mum's family was toxic and hated his mum for running away to the city and getting pregnant without getting married and worst of, the father of the child was a foreigner ( Ethiopian) and not one from their tribe. (To explain, we are Kenyan, he is from the Kikuyu tribe and I am from the Kamba tribe).

After his mum died, his grandma (mum's mum) took him in but she realized she couldn't raise him in the lions den so he was sent off to his aunt and uncle in the city. According to him, his foster parents (uncle and aunt) weren't so great to him and so he learnt to fend for himself. He took on modelling jobs to pay for college and he managed to graduate and all that. He did all the bad shit he could when he was modeling but when we met he had slowed down and was looking to get a job and live his life. Anyway, it was at this point that he had re-established contact with his dad. He was living in the UK now and had a wife with 2 kids. He was talking about how his dad was getting ready to meet him and was going to invite him to the UK to meet his stepmum, and step siblings. But his dad passed away a couple of months in and he was devastated. Having lost my dad a yr earlier I was empathetic and tried to be there for him as best as I could.

Our relationship was getting stronger at this point and C19 was just starting so we started helping each other out financially. At the end of it I had paid him back but he still owed me around 170 dollars. So, when he lost his job I decided to not nag him about it and just wait on him to pay me back. I wasn't f

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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.

You take away their little brooms

There hasn't been a post all year!

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

It was about a weak back.

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

When I got home, they were still there.