inspired by a new Ulillillia blog post.
#24 Speech: opposite of intention "times negative one": To explain this new speech-related habit for self-entertainment, let's say I'm watching TV. On TV, I'm watching a show where someone jumps off of a 80-foot-high cliff with water below. Upon making the jump, thinking that it's dumb to do, I may say "that 'thing' is smart times negative one". In mathematics, to get the opposite of something, you multiply it by negative 1. The opposite of 8, -8, is "8*-1". The opposite of "smart", "dumb", is "smart*-1", "smart times negative one".
me, I like mentally transcribing everyone's utterances into IPA with extensive use of suprasegmentals to capture their tone and rhythm.
