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愛星 / 外星

愛 (oi3)
love
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外 (ngoi6)
outside
the Love-Star, misread as the Outside-Star
The kingdom's founding slipsooth: in Cantonese 愛 (oi3) and 外 (ngoi6) sit one initial apart. Fear of the ‘lazy’ dropped ng- makes people plant it where it never grew — oi3 hardens into ngoi6, and 愛星人, the Love-Star people, drift into 外星人, the aliens, until the aliens forget they were ever from the Love Star. The lazy tongue is drifting them home. The earth is 愛星.
source · YOUSPEAK canon · slipsooth (the mechanism — ng-hypercorrection/deletion — is real Cantonese phonology; the descent is the kingdom's own myth, told as myth)

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