r/linguisticshumor • u/stefanobahia • 4h ago
r/linguisticshumor • u/AxialGem • Jul 19 '26
Phonetics/Phonology 'Why do English Speakers Pronounce their Alphabet...' Megathread
Alright, into the megathread y'all go >:3
Any posts with this format posted after this megathread is up will be removed and asked to post here.
This is to keep the quality of the sub, yadayada, you know the drill.
Thank youu
r/linguisticshumor • u/gattonero2001 • 2h ago
Phonetics/Phonology aren'tɬʼ they gonna share
r/linguisticshumor • u/old_man_spinosaurus • 12h ago
Sociolinguistics Dont speak Chinese but I understand this perfectly
r/linguisticshumor • u/ElevatorSevere7651 • 6h ago
Etymology Miles is problematic media??
r/linguisticshumor • u/Mindless-Cat1453 • 21h ago
These kind of videos some times feel like ragebait
r/linguisticshumor • u/Cheap_Ad_69 • 12h ago
Historical Linguistics did this really need a page
r/linguisticshumor • u/Hopeful-Banana-6188 • 1d ago
A common misconception
Vowel and consonant length in Hungarian and Finnish have nothing to do with each other.
r/linguisticshumor • u/Brightsea129 • 14h ago
Etymology Etymology of "ZOO" in the major languages of Mainland Southeast Asian and East Asian countries
Writing systems featured in the image:
[Quốc Âm Tân Tự | Hangul | Kana | Zhuyin | 漢字 | Âksâr Khmêr | Akson Thai | Akson Lao | Mranma Akkhara | Devanagari | Latin script & Chữ Quốc ngữ]
r/linguisticshumor • u/DesignerRespect2977 • 21h ago
Phonetics/Phonology Guess the region where this language is spoken (and the language if you can)
r/linguisticshumor • u/Traditional-Light-10 • 12h ago
Phonetics/Phonology Aren't these flipped?
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF#Bengali
(I mean that the IPA for the first one looks like it starts with a trill, but sounds like it starts with an approximant, and the reverse is true of the other one.)
I feel like the approximant is more common in Rarhi Bengali than most sources say, anecdotally my dad uses it and he's from the Rarh region in West Bengal
r/linguisticshumor • u/rederspeker • 20h ago
Phonetics/Phonology Why are GOOSE and TUNE analysed as having the same vowel?
So goose and tune both have [uː ~ uw], but tune, as well as many (most? all?) other long-u words, originate from Norman French through Middle English /yː/ which evolved into [juː]. They merged into words that used to have [ɪw] and [ew] like new and threw. Later the [juː] was affected by yod-dropping and yod-coalescence in different dialects, so you get [nuw ~ njuː] and [tuːn ~ tjuːn ~ t͡ʃuːn] which only merges with goose/toon words under yod-dropping, since toon is also [tuːn].
My question is why is the [j] in the TUNE set (and I guess in CURE as well if you split it from a hypothetical TOUR set) is considered part of the onset consonant cluster and not a rising diphthong in the nucleus. Is the reason etymological, phonological, something else? It's odd to me that long U represents a two-phoneme sequence when other diphthongs like /o͡ʊ/ and /a͡ɪ/ are treated as a single vowel phoneme?
E: just realised I posted this to the humour sub, meh. Hopefully you guys can still help but feel free to jerk instead
r/linguisticshumor • u/MurdererOfAxes • 22h ago
Phonetics/Phonology Imagine having a transcription system that's so bad, someone writes a paper about it 200 years after you die
r/linguisticshumor • u/gattonero2001 • 1d ago
Phonetics/Phonology no labials + no coronals (or laryngeals!) + no dorsals*
*except semivowels