Current state:

No sublanguage exists.

Proposed state:

A simpler sublanguage, detailed below, is hidden within the superlanguage. This sublanguage will be simpler than the main language but the grammar will be the same or a subset. It will still be a complete language in itself, capable of expressing anything the main language can, although it may lack some useful things like personal pronouns. It is not intended to be particularly naturalistic or easy to speak with. The system is designed to encapsulate arbitrary ideas.

All other official proposals about specific words are assumed to refer to the superlanguage, unless stated otherwise.

Phonology

Recall that the current phonotactics have an onset, a two vowel nucleus, and a coda in that order. In order to fit with this, subwords will have a different representation depending on the part of the syllable they start on. The dictionary form of a word uses consonants for every letter, but the representation in actual speech can be worked out by consulting the following table:

To demonstrate this, consider a hypothetical subword “pbf”. If it starts at the beginning of a syllable, the first component is the onset, and takes the consonant form “p”. The second component forms the nucleus “ei”. The third forms the coda, and will thus be “f”. The whole word is “peif”. The same word starting at the nucleus would be “iibf”, and starting at the coda it would be “pboi” (these both include the start of the next syllable.)

This system allows for words of any length to be composed together. Imagine you want to say “ts kvgz” - this would become “toekveaz”. If more flexibility is needed to make a sentence a certain number of syllables, extra null phonemes may be added in for codas. This allows for fitting a sentence of any length into syllables, except for the trivial case of a single component. Null phonemes are ignored when reading the sublanguage.

The vowel form begins with i for unvoiced plosives, e for voiced plosives, o for unvoiced fricatives and a for voiced fricatives. It ends in i for labial consonants, e for alveolar, o for palatal and a for glottal. This system may prove to allow better encapsulation, but its main purpose is to assist with learning the sublanguage. Some other consonants and vowels are absent from the table; these will not be inclu

NOTE: this is a miniaturized version of this proposal.

Current state:

There is no system for encapsulating arbitrary ideas.

Proposed state:

The EL uses a system that exists as a subset of the spoken or written language to encapsulate arbitrary information. This means that words in this system are as specific or less specific than their EL counterparts. They are never more specific than their EL counterpart. Grammar is also either as vague or more vague than the EL.

In summary, any rule that exists in the sublanguage must exist in the main language, but not every rule in the main language must exist in the sublanguage.

What would need to be decided, and the challenges that come with them:

Phonology - must be a subset or the complete phonology of the EL.

Morphology - unlike the main language we cannot rely on gaps or pauses to indicate word breaks.

Word Choice - likely would need to be far more minimalistic than the EL. words in the sublanguage would likely not encapsulate information.

Grammar - must be a subset or the complete grammar of the EL.

How about bypassing of fencepost / off-by-one error?

There does not seem to be /ë/ present in the available in the Vx part of the derivational suffix. This could be used to introduce in the sublanguage.

Examples:

Arral - A cat

Arralëk - Two cats

Arralët - Eleven cats

Arralëtk - One hundred and thirty two cats

If the suffix is after another, it could modify it?

Ogralouqixrës - It's feast is with 5 hands

Mathematical suffixes can be written with a dash over the consonantal character.

I've been noting down more suggestions here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wDmIKMEalvrARMTle_Xi-XF7Kw508JiHeZYZlotF-fo/edit?usp=sharing

EDIT: FORMATING

EDIT2: Thought that maybe if a mathematical suffix goes after another, it could describe it in terms of groups of

For example: Arralëtëk - Two groups of eleven cats; 22

I guess the concept didn't work

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.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

He lost May

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

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!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Hi everyone. I heard that there are two ways to implement automatic differentiation: Source code transformation (SCT) and Operator overloading (OO). Which type does Jax use? And same question for Tensorflow and Pytorch.

And boy are my arms legs.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

Put it on my bill

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

BamBOO!

A play on words.

Calcium, nickel, neon

Current state:

No grammar rules for the sublanguage have been proposed.

Proposed state:

The grammar of the sublanguage is the same as the superlanguage, unless otherwise specified.

Reason:

It's simpler to just have one grammar.

Hi all,

u/markrocks- has raised an Official Proposal to modify the grammar of the sublanguage. This proposal has been approved by the Official Proposal Committee for voting.

Current State:

The sublanguage is a subset of the spoken or written language used to encapsulate arbitrary information.

• Sublanguage words are less specific or as specific as their Encapsulated Language counterparts.
• Sublanguage grammar is less vague or as vague as its Encapsulated Language counterpart.

In summary, any rule that exists in the sublanguage must also exist in the main language, but not every rule that exists in the main language must also exist in the sublanguage.

Proposed State:

The sublanguage is a subset of the spoken or written language used to encapsulate arbitrary information.

• Sublanguage grammar is the same as its Encapsulated Language counterpart, unless otherwise specified.

Reason:

It's simpler to just have one grammar.

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