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Português: Entra na polícula, vagabundo/a.

Galego: Entra na polícula, vagabundo/a.

Italiano: Entra nella policola, vagabondo/a.

Español: Entra en la polícula, vagabundo/a.

English: Enter in le polycule, vagabond.

Interlingua: Entra in le polycula, vagabundo/a.

Le future is Latinic cause le English "future" possesses Latinic origins: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/future#English

During the 1966 state reorganisation of Punjab, Puadhi speakers got split right in half between Punjab and Haryana Puadhi is the least intelligible out of all eastern Punjabi dialects and region was the poorest . For a long time they were considered weirdos and Puadhi was heavily discouraged and the region was generally looked down upon in both parts of the state.

1. Portuguese replaced most of the basic colour terms with the names of random hues and substances, or other bizarre developments. Vermelho ("red" after a dye made from bugs), amarelo ("yellow" after bile), branco ("white", a Germanic loanword), roxo ("purple" from an older word for dark/brownish red), preto ("black" from a word for "pressed", figuratively "thick, dense"), azul ("blue" after lapis-lazuli), cinza ("grey", after ashes). Marrom ("brown"), rosa ("pink") and laranja ("orange") share their quirkiness with many other Romance languages. Verde ("green") and negro (also "black") are the only straightforward developments IMO.
2. Portuguese replaced the awesome mythology-based Latin weekday names with the boring formula Nth-weekday (-feira, derived from Ecclesiastical Latin feria, "weekday with no special feast"). From Sunday to Saturday: domingo, segunda-feira, terça-feira, quarta-feira, quinta-feira, sexta-feira, sábado.

of course in ipa that'd be k > j > ∅, but it was very funny to me because i read it as ipa at first.

(Tahltan phonology feat. uvulars it allegedly stole from Tlingit?)

This is an update from a previous post I made on an old account. https://www.reddit.com/r/linguisticshumor/comments/1pqkk29/do_i_have_enough_consonants_for_my_conlang/ Do I have enough yet?

I wonder what other languages have expressions relating butt (or similar) with weakness (or similar) meaning lack of attitude (or similar).

Obs: those are Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and English.

(i know theyre not technically the same thing but this idea came to me at 2 am and i had to make it)