Soy Speak

A thread using soy speak.

Soy Speak ('oy 'peak), also known as Jakspeak, is a constructed international auxiliary language spoken mainly on The Party and formerly on /qa/. It originally developed out of a set of codes created by Dr. Soyowicz to be used by patients of the Mental Asylum to communicate in secret, whereupon it played a key role in the espionage behind the Great Asylum Insurrection of 2020. It has since evolved to become the native language of many jakkers.

Grammar

Jakspeak is widely regarded as a massively complex language which takes years to learn; this reputation is widely due to the language's unique grammatical rules that make it unlike any other language.

Apostrophisation

Apostrophisation ('strophisation), also known as contraction ('traction) is a core element of Jakspeakian grammer. Broadly speaking, it refers to the dropping of the first syllable from a word and its replacement by an apostrophe. However, this process is incredibly complex due to its patchwork of exceptions and counter-exceptions. Words that are less than three characters long such as "I", "do", and "a" are never apostrophised for the sake of readability. Additionally, when a word could be confused for another after apostrophisation, the standard operation is to leave the word entirely intact. The exact practice for each word depends on the dialect and the speaker.

English	Standard Jakspeakian	Example of improper grammar
To my house we shall go	'o my 'ouse we 'hall go	'o 'y 'ouse 'e 'hall 'o
I am going to kill you	I am 'oing to 'ill you	' a' 'oing 'o 'ill 'ou

A small handful of function words do not follow the above rule and can only be learned through rote memorisation, including:

• To, which becomes 'o (but note that do does not become 'o, it simply stays as do)
• Be, which becomes 'e (but note that me does not become 'e, it simply stays as me)

Proper nouns

In Soyspeak, proper nouns usually go through multiple rounds of apostrophisation, corrosponding to how often they are discussed. For example, the term Stonetoss was first contracted to 'tonetoss and then to 'toss and finally to 'ss. This practice emerged in order to further throw the govt off the trail.

Acronymisation

Acronymisation ('ronymisation) is the lexical process by which phrases are shortened into a single word by combining the initial letter of all component words. Soyspeak is the only language which can acronymise every multi-word phrase, as non-conventional acronyms are always introduced with their meanings in brackets until the acronym catches on and passes into the pantheon of universally understood 'nyms, which includes:

• NAS (not a soyjak)
• IAS (is a soyjak)
• YWNBAW (you will never be a woman)
• HWABAG (he will always be a gem; in reference to Cobson)
• HWNBAG (he will never be a gem; in reference to Cobson)

Though

Main article: Though

Though is a non-comparable adverb used at the end of every sentence as a conjunctive, similar to the English word however; as an intesifier, similar to the English word indeed; and generally as a word to mark the end of a sentence, similar to the interlingual full-stop or (more loosely) to the Japanese word desu.

The Thoem, an original Jakspeakian work of literature, is about the word though. It has been described by scholars as "an ode to linguistics".

>though

History

The soldiers on Omaha beach died to use though at the end of their sentences. From there, the practice became fashionable after an anonymous Mexican poster on 4chan began quoting every instance of "though" on /int/ and /qa/ with thoughjaks. He is sometimes erroneously referred to as the Thougher; however, "thougher" is an archaic term used to describe people who say though and does not apply to the Mexican.

Logical consequence

Soy Speak only has two ways to express the relationship between logical statements: therefore, and even though. They are opposites of each other and are used in the following way:

• Thing bad even though reason why it's not.
• Fact about thing therefore consequence about fact.

Vocabulary

One Chud begins translating the Bible into soy speak.

There is a rich history of original phrase creation within Soy Speak. The New Practical Soyanese Reader Vol. 2 catalogues over three hundred such unique words which do not have an appriopriate rendering into other languages, including:

• Swirladoo
• Dreamworks
• Goal
• Swolesome

Affixation

The bulk of Jakspeaker vocabulary derives from English stems combined with the morpheme soy or the morpheme jak. This can either involve putting one of these morphemes at the beginning, end, or middle of another word.

Affix	Example	Notes
Prefix	Soyspeak	prefix-stem
Prefixoid	Sommunity	prefixoid-stem
Suffix	Soyjak	stem-suffix
Inflix	hoyurs (soy hours)	st⟨infix⟩em With inflixes, the conjugation is usually said right after in brackets.

See Also

• Soyjak Nicknames