Zompist Bboard Again

A thread to create and often overlooked aspect of language creation otherwise known as Idioms for your language. How it works is you take the idiom made by the person above you and give it a meaning in your language before providing another idiom for the next person to use. You could change up the exact details of the grammar of the idiom a bit but try to keep the lexical things the same (or change them up a bit to fit the conworld). Meanings for the idiom are preferrably not provided to give people more creativity.

If you don't know what an Idiom is its anything whose literal translation doesn't match its meaning "raining cats and dogs (it's raining a lot now)" "It's not the sea to drink (it's not particularly difficult)" "To leave with the head (be engrossed)" "A dog doesn't recognise it's owner (it's chaotic)" "A frog in a well never knows the vast ocean (be humble)".

Some Amarin Idioms
manja ami kuju na sua
NEG COP.2.sg rabbit LNK 2.sg
“It’s not your rabbit”
“It’s not your business”

manja ami kili na sua
NEG COP.2.sg fish LNK 2.sg
“It’s not your fish”
“It’s not your gift”

mori ami koko na a
NEG COP.2.sg cat LNK 2.sg
“It’s not your cat”
“It’s not your gift”

And the provided Idion: Like yellow grass

gdalle wros menten
yellow grass seem
"to be like yellow grass"
"to not match"

In Msérsca, the words for green and grass have the same initial consonant cluster, as they do in English. Like "green grass," wrý wros is a common phrase with a nice alliterative quality. gdalle wros, by contrast, sounds a bit clunky. So just as the words themselves don't alliterate (alliteration being a common feature of Msérsca poetry), two things can be said not to go together by comparing them to yellow grass.

Next idiom: from the big chair

mai kamiwi wa tati muu
3.m come-Near from chair big
“He came from the big chair”
“He is bearing important news”

Next: Turning foxes into dogs

w¿¼wº\óÁ\UϾ\\wº„¼º½]zºw¾
(animal of redness and with pointed ears and face and working now for human...)

in nijorvasabhumi there is no such thing as an idiom,
in the absence of a dictionary...
however, metaphors, even if they are not lexicalized, are allowed in on-the-fly construction,
even if they must be, at least in context, transparent...

here the translation, in absence of words for "fox" and "dog", is: a fox on the verge of being domesticated...
we could be referring to a person (especially a redhead or someone with a fiery temper) who would soften up when living with a partner...

next: to drink your own piss

you came into a thread for idioms for your language which lacks idioms

Yes,

but everything that exists in one human language
can be translated into another human language...

if proof were needed...

(at least that's the proof I'm looking for here in nijorvasabhumi...)

xxx wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 7:11 amnext: to drink your own piss

mul oo, tem ittsqiš wenniŋŋul
use.mouth DEF.R3 | be.consumed DEF.R5=piss EQ=INAL=self
Literally: He drinks his own piss.
Figuratively: He is conceited./He is a narcissist./He's up himself./He's got tickets on himself.

Next: to be full of bees

śii uwa ju nekea
3.f be.full COM bee-pau
“She’s full of bees”
“She’s confident/sure of herself”


Next: Of the Ermine's Scent and Claw

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2023 11:47 pm śii uwa ju nekea
3.f be.full COM bee-pau
“She’s full of bees”
“She’s confident/sure of herself”

Why though? What's the rationale?

Next: Of the Ermine's Scent and Claw

Might be waiting a while for a taker for this one.

Imralu wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 9:53 pm

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2023 11:47 pm śii uwa ju nekea
3.f be.full COM bee-pau
“She’s full of bees”
“She’s confident/sure of herself”

Why though? What's the rationale?

The rationale is full of bees sounds like you are brimming with energy

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 3:44 amThe rationale is full of bees sounds like you are brimming with energy

Ah true! I didn't think of it that way. Busy bees!

Of the Ermine's Scent and Claw
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(animal of whiteness and body long this animal smelling and clawing...)

beware of so-called weak girls...

next: water doesn't clean the shit that soils it