Roshan Variant English

RoVE is my dialect of English. It is meant to interoperate with English where it can with some differences. This page is meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive.

Literally

The word 'literally' may be used to mean 'figuratively' in RoVE. In fact, no RoVE speaker has ever failed to use this word unification.

Loan Words

Loan words from foreign languages are pronounced as they are in that language. Most RoVE speakers would consider you pretentious if you did not do so.

Pronoun Gender

Just like English moved on from most other European languages by removing noun gender, RoVE moves on from English by removing pronoun gender. Current candidate replacement for pronouns is ne/nim. When speaking English, RoVE speakers will usually go along with whatever pronoun people prefer, but strictly RoVE has no gendered pronouns.

Retard

The word "retard" etc. are acceptable to refer to people who are acting stupid. Just like "idiot" and other phrases before, it’s completely acceptable to use as a reference to a foolish person. One does not usually refer to actually medically intellectually impaired individuals this way, however.

Which-Eth

In order to identify the index of a specific element in a list, RoVE permits asking the question as "which-eth". e.g. "Which-eth President was Donald Trump?" has the answer "The 45th".