Zompist Bboard Again

zompist wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 3:53 pm I was just looking at a Hausa grammar, and learned that "he" is shī. (And pronouns do have a gender distinction.)

Can you think of other words like this? That is, language pairs where roughly the same phonetic word has opposite meanings.

Greek ναί 'yes' comes close, cf. Czech ne or Swedish nej.

zyxw59 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 7:05 am Polish tak "yes"
Indonesian tak "no"

Combined with the fact that the Polish and Indonesian flags are the same but upside-down

Man in Space wrote: ↑Tue Apr 22, 2025 3:40 pm Debating whether to re-romanize CT. Specifically, changing /ŋ x ʕ/ from ĝ ḫ g to _⅁ g ĝ. This would make it more consistent in the romanization as I already have d for /θ/, and I think it'll break LaTeX less.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 4:28 am
It makes sense that lay people would have a biased view. Most of the pope's activity goes right over our head -- I know the Synod on Synodality is important, but even the name boggles me.

Darren wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 5:34 pm For TNG (at least some of which is legit), we know just about the words for "louse", "egg" and a couple of pronouns, but that doesn't mean they just said "me louse you egg, heh heh?" all the time.