#dirtworld

Dirtworld is an alien world that evolved in such a way that practically everything is simply dirt. No trees, no grass, no mushrooms, nothing of the sort really, perhaps worms, certainly microbes, but not much at all that we would recognise as life like on Earth, one of the sole exceptions being the dirtworldians, an intelligent (and even spacefaring!) species much like ourselves. Nutrient rich dirt for meals, dirt as building material, different kinds of dirt used for every purpose you could imagine, from skin care to space flight.

And being such a world where all is dirt and dirt is all, many words for non-dirt things typically derive from a root word that itself means dirt. For example, the Dirtworldian word for lake might derive from the word for the type of dirt found near lakes. You can stretch this concept to cover damn near everything, from natural features, to technological inventions. If the word for car is derived from both the word for motion and the word for structure, and the word for motion itself is derived from the word for a landslide (dirtslide, really), and let's say the word for structure has its roots in the materials used to make it... then naturally that would make the Dirtworldian word for car translate into something like "dirtdirt."

The key to making this linguistic bullshit work however, lies in an extremely old literary record, with writing invented drastically sooner than it was by humans, comparatively. This allows for the origins of words to be much more well known, and thus much more likely to be known to mean dirt.

This whole thing started as a little improv bit between myself and a close friend, making up funny little details as we went on. Sort of like a more ridiculous and stupid version of Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

The meme post itself was something I made on a whim, fashioned after similar other posts like this one for example. "Imagine the memes that would occur if Dirtworld made first contact" essentially.

About the setting though, one might ask what are the Dirtworldians like? How did they evolve among the dirt? What is their culture and society like? What are the fauna of Dirtworld like? The politics? The dirt? Or what about even the dirt dirt? There's plenty more I could say about it, but I think this post is long enough already, and I encourage you to use your own imagination to fill in the gaps.

There are infinitely many funny words so long as you put in the effort to make them so.

Here are some other silly words I like that you might like too:

Slop

Bunt

Horse

Haunch

Grok

Bunk

Chunk

Smackerel

Plop

Dip

Dill

Junk

Steez

Pork

Bucket

Jang/dealy-jang/dealy-john

Nast(y)

Sauce

Gob