Fun Slang in SUL

None of this is standard SUL - it's the playful layer built on top, the way real slang gets built everywhere.

How slang is born

  • Leaning on the volume knob. Emphasis is chaining 'very' (word-building lesson), so slang cranks it: aknases (no-very) = emphatic NO, otaknases (true-very) = "for real".
  • Clipping. A whole thought shrinks to a word or two: ogaknagut (go-now) = "gotta go", agufnafek (eat-good) = "eating (is) good".
  • Metaphor. Hot things are exciting, cold things are calm - every language reinvents these.
  • Deadpan flip. Something nice, then the antonym word on the end - afeknasesnuk (good-very-antonym). Correct SUL - the joke is the delivery.

Everyone says these

agufnafek (eat-good) is the compliment with your mouth full - efnogaknotuf (we-go-command) is the push out the door - ogaknagut needs no goodbye attached.

MeaningSULLiterallyWrittenHear
Delicious!agufnafekeat-goodagufnafekaagguuffnnaaffeekk
Let's go!efnogaknotufwe-go-commandefnogaknotufeeffnnooggaakknnoottuuff
No way!aknasesno-veryaknasesaakknnaasseess
Oh my God!ogisGodogisooggiiss
What?!ateswhatatesaatteess
Gotta go / I'm outogaknagutgo-nowogaknagutooggaakknnaagguutt

Youth slang

Kids (otasnisus, person-new) shout single words: something great is ages (fire), laughed too hard and you're usot (dead), nail it and you ekuknases it (hit-very - the very tells you nobody got punched). A beginner is afognotnuk (know-doer-antonym): not stupid, just hasn't learned yet. And ogag is the filler word, like English "like". It drives the elders insane.

MeaningSULLiterallyWrittenHear
Amazing! That's fire!agesfireagesaaggeess
I'm dead (from laughing)usotdeathusotuussoott
Facts. So true.otaktrueotakoottaakk
For real / no capotaknasestrue-veryotaknasesoottaakknnaasseess
Nailed it! Smashed it!ekuknaseshit-veryekuknaseseekkuukknnaasseess
Slick, well doneetikcleanetikeettiikk
Intense, serious, deepufofheavyufofuuffooff
Noob (mild tease)afognotnukknow-doer-antonymafognotnukaaffooggnnoottnnuukk
Total fool (stronger)afesnuknasessmart-antonym-veryafesnuknasesaaffeessnnuukknnaasseess

Elder slang

Elders (otasnutak, person-old) say ekis (cool) where kids say fire, call someone they adore atuf, and love the deadpan flip afeknasesnuk ("...NOT!"). At the door you'll get agufnaguf - eat-eat - strictly not SUL at all: doubling means nothing in the language, but grandmothers do it in every language on Earth ("mangia mangia") and nobody corrects a grandmother.

MeaningSULLiterallyWrittenHear
Cool! (dated but beloved)ekisiceekiseekkiiss
You're wonderful (endearment)atufsunatufaattuuff
...NOT! (dated sarcasm)afeknasesnukgood-very-antonymafeknasesnukaaffeekknnaasseessnnuukk
Blockhead (dated insult)etusnokukhead-stoneetusnokukeettuussnnookkuukk
Eat, eat! (grandparent's welcome)agufnagufeat-eatagufnagufaagguuffnnaagguuff

Swearing in SUL

SUL has no four-letter words - angry people grab ordinary words and throw them, as in every language (Korean "dog-child", Mandarin "roll!"). Conveniently the meanest words (egef, ekuf) are packed with hard k and t sounds you can spit.

MeaningSULLiterallyWrittenHear
Shut your mouth! (stop talking)agifnafugnotufsay-halt-commandagifnafugnotufaaggiiffnnaaffuuggnnoottuuff
Get lost! Beat it!ogaknotufgo-commandogaknotufooggaakknnoottuuff
Cold-blooded monster (ice for blood)ekutnekisblood-iceekutnekiseekkuuttnneekkiiss
Bitch! (a bad dog)egefnogetdog-badegefnogeteeggeeffnnooggeett
Die!usotnotufdeath-commandusotnotufuussoottnnoottuuff
Drop dead! (fall dead)otuknusotnotuffall-death-commandotuknusotnotufoottuukknnuussoottnnoottuuff
Son of a dog!otesnegefchild-dogotesnegefootteessnneeggeeff
Utterly bad son of a dog! (nuclear)otesnegefnogetwaseschild-dog-bad+veryotesnegefnogetwasesootteessnneeggeeffnnooggeettwwaasseess

Even at maximum fury the rules hold: very can't grade a dog or a person, only a description - so the nuclear form chains bad on and aims the w glue at that: otesnegefnogetwases (child-dog-bad+very), an utterly BAD son of a dog. And usotnotuf uses the ordinary command piece - screamable, never mishearable.

Slang is still SUL

Almost everything above is ordinary words and ordinary gluing. The lone outlaw is grandma's agufnaguf. Slang bends the tone, not the rules.

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