Week 6 IPA Prompt - /ˈta.e a.ˈre.hi mos.to.ˈen.ro ˈta.e fain.ˈto.la/

Welcome to Week 6 of Bad Interpreters, the chaotic conlang game where meaning is optional, phonetics are misleading, and everyone is absolutely confident in their terrible linguistic instincts.

Last week's prompt: /sto.ri.ˈnu.o u i.u.an.ˈte.la ˈi.ki hi u ˈolt.no a.ne.ˈro.la/
From that, we got these top picks:
Shoáth: Eshtor ëenūo ūm îshū án telop yëek îkîū plotnáát nëemrolá. (“Give a circle! This is you smiling on my phone call. You blink; friends have stains.”) [Most Sentimental]
Mogahgo: Sdôhdvi, anold elisgi. Ôsmomê lolê. ("Together with the mountain, are all fish calm 6 times? The home would move 9 times.") [Most Random]

How to Play

1. Decide what the prompt means in your conlang.
2. Translate it using your phonotactics, grammar, and cultural flavor.
3. Explain your questionable reasoning.
4. Have fun!

If you have any ideas for interesting phrases or sentences for the next week, let me know in a DM! This activity will be posted on weekly on Wednesdays.

Week 5 IPA Prompt - /sto.ri.ˈnu.o u i.u.an.ˈte.la ˈi.ki hi u ˈolt.no a.ne.ˈro.la/

Welcome to Week 5 of Bad Interpreters, the chaotic conlang game where meaning is optional, phonetics are misleading, and everyone is absolutely confident in their terrible linguistic instincts.

Last week's prompt: /ˈta.e u o.ˈme.ro ˈe.fo ˈwer.mo ˈta.e en.ˈto.la/
From that, we got these top picks:
Kargese: eþ ømero þu ða data lunas, bisä þu katsol æfo þu łenðar ða jintoła eþ ta. ("Eat up your colourful lunch, because you need to practise (for) your competition of colourful duck-eaters.") [Most Coherent]
Shoáth: Tîëerá omervosh zoth efpū nūermov: tîëer entroláshk. (“Incredible ones that you twirl sing-song-like: an almost perfect one.”) [Most Random]
Mogahgo: do mêrê êba verda, do engola? ("To sit and watch it walk far into the sunset with uncertainty, do I sit here and do it all again?") [Most Poetic]

How to Play

1. Decide what the prompt means in your conlang.
2. Translate it using your phonotactics, grammar, and cultural flavor.
3. Explain your questionable reasoning.
4. Have fun!

If you have any ideas for interesting phrases or sentences for the next week, let me know in a DM! This activity will be posted on weekly on Wednesdays.

Week 4 IPA Prompt - /ˈta.e u o.ˈme.ro ˈe.fo ˈwer.mo ˈta.e en.ˈto.la/

Welcome to Week 4 of Bad Interpreters, the chaotic conlang game where meaning is optional, phonetics are misleading, and everyone is absolutely confident in their terrible linguistic instincts.

Last week's prompt: /ˈta.e u ˈek.so ˈta.e ˈni.fo ˈi.a ˈta.e ˈtin.ke/
From that, we got these top picks:
Arnínsáh: (I)táyássu táínihúwiyá (i)táítínki. ("Someone had said that) they have started to resent me/you after seeing me/you ridiculing their champion (of the fight.") [Most Coherent]
Mosza: taji ‘u ‘eco taji nifo ija taji tin ke. (“To bring wind, except the balance of a piece, to bring wind, inanimate corn, a multitude of planets, to bring arm wind, points.”) [Most Random]
Mogahgo: do sgamo, onôgêâvlâ, do dihkeg. ("To bathe, a little less barren, to stargaze.") [Most Philosophical]

How to Play

1. Decide what the prompt means in your conlang.
2. Translate it using your phonotactics, grammar, and cultural flavor.
3. Explain your questionable reasoning.
4. Have fun!

If you have any ideas for interesting phrases or sentences for the next week, let me know in a DM! This activity will be posted on weekly on Wednesdays.

Week 3 IPA Prompt - /ˈta.e u ˈek.so ˈta.e ˈni.fo ˈi.a ˈta.e ˈtin.ke/

Welcome to Week 3 of Bad Interpreters, the chaotic conlang game where meaning is optional, phonetics are misleading, and everyone is absolutely confident in their terrible linguistic instincts.

Last week's prompt: /ˈwa.to u a.ˈi.rɛ ˈɛn.to/
From that, we got these top picks:
Kethariye Orasaketh: Windavone, uaesa, ira, envosa. ("The window, that is behind, all of those beings, be.") [Most Random]
Tinako: Lato ut ail’en ento. (“The coffee/hot chocolate has blue milk.”) [Most Coherent]
Ansian: wato u'a ireno to. ("Following trends isn't the same as working that difficult, passion-less job that one only does to please society.") [Most Philosophical]

How to Play

1. Decide what the prompt means in your conlang.
2. Translate it using your phonotactics, grammar, and cultural flavor.
3. Explain your questionable reasoning.
4. Have fun!

If you have any ideas for interesting phrases or sentences for the next week, let me know in a DM! This activity will be posted on weekly on Wednesdays.

Week 2 IPA Prompt - /ˈwa.to u a.ˈi.rɛ ˈɛn.to/

Welcome to Week 2 of Bad Interpreters, the chaotic conlang game where meaning is optional, phonetics are misleading, and everyone is absolutely confident in their terrible linguistic instincts.

Last week's prompt: /u a.ti.ɛ.ˈnɛ.haɪ no.ˈtɛn.stra su.ˈo.mɛ/
From that, we got these top picks:
Odōna: Wātle nayle nute sula same. ("The moon believes that black leg.") [Most Random]
Kethariye Orasaketh: Lā usakiyozu ānethnehashoraine nuensivura, zusumozu omar ("In order for the nine-tailed fox to avoid dying from the cold, the fox lay in a field of flowers.") [Most Coherent]
Ansian: Hwat in Eheno Tenza swamme? ("To what was Tenza swimming in Aachen?") [Most Inquisitive]

How to Play

1. Decide what the prompt means in your conlang.
2. Translate it using your phonotactics, grammar, and cultural flavor.
3. Explain your questionable reasoning.
4. Have fun!

If you have any ideas for interesting phrases or sentences for the next week, let me know in a DM! This activity will be posted on weekly on Wednesdays.

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Howdy!

I am Austin Imons, President of the Sancta Corpus Tejana. It is with great excitement and honor to officially introduce our nation the internet and to the micronation community at large.

The Sancta Corpus Tejana (SCT) was founded in 2023 and is a democratic theocracy. It is located in the southern United States and is made up of one province and a-soon-to-be territory: Ismenia and Eman, respectively. Our capital city, Ehaus, is located in the middle of Ismenia.

Our official language is English as it keeps official government business, documents, etc. accessible to the vast majority

Our national animal is the lion as both a symbol of our national pride, our strength, and our faith in the one true God. The state animal for the province of Ismenia is the white-tail deer, as they roam the vast majority of the capital province.

Citizenship in the SCT can be broken down into three categories:

1. Natural Citizens - People born withing SCT territories or to SCT citizens.
2. Faithful Citizens - People who apply for citizenship, affirm respect for the Catholic heritage of the SCT while not needing citizens to be Catholic themselves, and agree to uphold the nations civic virtues.
3. Honorary Citizens - Granted by the President for service, diplomacy, or cultural contribution.

Applications for Tejana citizenship are open. If you wish to apply, please follow this format and leave your application in the comments:

1. Name
2. Country of residence
3. Reason for applying
4. Religious affiliation
5. Agreement to respect the SCT, its Catholic heritage, and its people
6. Take the civic oath: "I pledge to uphold the dignity of all persons, the liberty of the people, and the moral heritage of Sancta Corpus Tejana.”

Applications will be approved or denied within 48 hours of submission.

We're also open to establishing friendships, diplomatic relations, and alliances with other micronations and organizations. If you'd like to connect, feel free to DM me and we shall discuss it further.

Thank you for your time and have a wonderful rest of your week.

- President Austin Imons

Week 1 IPA Prompt - /u a.ti.ɛ.ˈnɛ.haɪ no.ˈtɛn.stra su.ˈo.mɛ/

Welcome to Week 1 of Bad Interpreters, the chaotic conlang game where meaning is optional, phonetics are misleading, and everyone is absolutely confident in their terrible linguistic instincts.

If you missed the intro post, this is the gist of things:
This game gives you one IPA string each week.
Your job is to translate it into your conlang using nothing but the sounds — no meaning, no context, no hints. It's your job to interpret as boldly and translate as badly as you can/want while justifying everything.

How to Play

1. Decide what the prompt means in your conlang.
2. Translate it using your phonotactics, grammar, and cultural flavor.
3. Explain your questionable reasoning.
4. Have fun!

If you have any ideas for interesting phrases or sentences for the next week, let me know in a DM! This activity will be posted on weekly on Wednesdays.

Welcome to Bad Interpreters!

This is the chaotic conlang game where meaning is optional, phonetics are misleading, and everyone is absolutely confident in their terrible linguistic instincts.

Each week, you’ll receive one IPA prompt — a word, phrase, or short sentence.

Your job is to translate it into your conlang using nothing but the sounds.
No meaning. No context. No hints. Just vibes, instinct, and questionable interpretive choices.

Think of it like a game of telephone, except everyone starts wrong on purpose.

How to Play

1. Get the weekly IPA prompt.

2. Interpret the sounds. Decide what the prompt means in your conlang. There are no wrong answers, only beautifully misguided ones.

3. Translate it! Write the equivalent in your conlang using your phonotactics, grammar, morphology, cultural flavor, and semantic chaos.

4. Share your translation with your gloss, meaning, and a short explanation for your reasoning! A simple why and how should do.

What Next?

With each new week, we'll highlight translations that were the funniest, most cursed, and most plausible. And with the highlights will come a new prompt to start the madness all over again!

Tips And Tricks

• Don’t overthink it — instinctual chaos is the point.
• Beginners are absolutely welcome.
• You don’t need a full conlang; improvise everything.
• Feel free to add cultural notes, idioms, or grammar quirks.
• The more absurd your justification, the better!
  • Examples:
    • "I heard [fəˈlɛto] and assumed it meant ‘the king’s goat’ because it sounded regal."
    • “My conlang doesn’t allow /f/, so I changed it to /h/ and decided it meant ‘to scream politely’.”
    • “I thought the stress pattern looked accusative, so I made it a threat.”