Translation:
[image of a svobenian google search result saying earth’s age is 4.543 billion years]
A: how is it
A: (that) the earth is 4543 [sic] billion years old but the year is (only) 2025
B: idiot 🤦
Also a bit of a context, Svobenian is my Germanic conlang with strong Slavic influence (basically a descendant of Proto-Germanic with Slavic sound changes and many proto-slavic borrowings). I made this joke to demonstrate the difference between “vėtar” (year, cognate to English winter, used only as a time unit, e.g. 4.543 mlrd vėtř, meaning 4.543 billion years) and “jero” (cognate to English year, used in other contexts, e.g. jero 2025 “year 2025”)
Interesting. It’s a germanic language. Because “debil” the only part I got (having no knowledge of this conlang), I got because “débile” for dumb exists in french. Which I think comes from Latin debilis.
This word also exists in Polish, Lithuanian, and Russian, as a loanword from French. Because I imagine speakers of Svobenian living somewhere in central Europe (i even have the whole althist thing where i made Svobenia, country of Svobenians, being located in what is now Kaliningrad oblast), i find it sensible that they’d also borrow this word.
And yeah, it’s a Germanic language, developing separately from probably originally Eastern Germanic branch, somewhere in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, but then got heavily influenced by some early West Slavic language. I’m gonna elaborate on the whole history of svobenes once i actually “finish” the language
I love the lore ahah!
