• Bubs@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    Another translation:

    Em ar snakes!

    Em ar not!

    Oh es ay ar.
    See em eedy beedy eyes?

    EL, I be…
    Em ar snakes.

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      6 days ago

      Feels like it would’ve been easier to guess if it’d been clear that it was a conversation. No one expects a sign to be talking to itself.

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        Yeah, exactly. I also don’t know how common it is in other languages for slang/shorthand to match letter/word sounds. This is probably in the same bucket as languages having different animal sounds.