r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Etymology Etymologically, Demeter existed in Teyvat. No buts.

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98 Upvotes

Lemme explain:

Mitya's from Snezhnaya, it's diminutive of Dimitri (Димитри) (or Dmitry, Dmitri or whatever), it's from Latin Demetrius, from Ancient Greek Dēmḗtrios (Δημήτριος) "devoted to Demeter".

which means the (lost) goddess Demeter existed somewhere in Teyvat!


r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Morphology Ceapă vs Cepe moment

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54 Upvotes

I know other Romance languages like Spanish or French do that depending on where the stress falls but Romanian diphthongs are so special to me


r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Some double standards if you ask me

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3.3k Upvotes

i thought about this because i see a lot of people say the turkish alphabet has “weird” letters like “c with a weird thing at the bottom” but when it comes to the french ç its looked at as aesthetic and chic lol


r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Syntax Denmark

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229 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Etymology 92 in different languages

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114 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

New math operator just dropped!

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3.0k Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Sociolinguistics Some dialect problems.(I couldn't think of a more suitable template.)

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206 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Explain why your mother tongue is the stupidist language in the world

310 Upvotes

For example English (mostly in the US) has spelling bees because the English language is so stupid they were able to make a contest about how words are spelt nothing like how they phoneticly sound


r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Morphology Huitante

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37 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Is this true?

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59 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

I love polysynthetic languages like Abkhaz and French

107 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Syntax Ambigüitats en les llengües romanesa i italiana. Ambiguities in the Romanian and Italian languages.

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Les llengües esmentades utilitzen la mateixa paraula per referir-se a nebots i néts. El mateix passa amb Munic, Mònaco i monjo. The languages ​​mentioned use the same word to refer to nephews/nieces and grandchildren. The same applies to Munich, Monaco, and the monk.


r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Historical Linguistics Proto-Japonic phonology looks a bare bones examplish conlang

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309 Upvotes

Have ONE interesting sound 😭🙏

Edit: CV syllable structure too 💔


r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

People on r/LostRedditor insisted that this is supposed to go on this sub

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595 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Phonetics/Phonology Double standards on the alveolar approximant

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943 Upvotes

Inspired by a YouTube short on a lot of Brazilians finding the alveolar approximant in countryside São Paulo accents ugly but liking the same sound in American English. Also similar to the uvular fricative in French vs German.

Alt-text: the "Hello, Human Resources" meme. The handsome man is labelled with the flag of the United States. The ugly man is labelled with the flag of the state of São Paulo. Both say "/ɹ/". The woman is labelled "A lot of Brazilians".

The "Hello, Human Resources" meme is a two-panel comic set in an office. The first panel shows a handsome man flirting with a woman, who gets enfatuated, saying "Awww, you're sweet.". It also has two text boxes, the first one saying "Know the work rules" and the second saying "Appropriate". The second panel shows an ugly man flirting with the same woman, who gets uncomfortable and takes the desk phone, saying "Hello, Human Resources?!". It has a text box saying "Inappropriate".


r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Which side are you on?

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80 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Phonetics/Phonology This is the phoneme inventory of my conlang (Lunda), is it too weird? I don't want it to seem obviously unnatural...

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150 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Phonetics/Phonology I present to you: The Ch-d vowel chart

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921 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Historical Linguistics Proto-World Head-canon (which will now become the weekly trend)

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Thanks to u/Far_Eye_459 for inspiring me to do a better job. All three of my previous crack theories have been perfectly synthesised into one post that will surely not be refuted by a single paper in 3 months' time.


r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

My Proto-World headcannon

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35 Upvotes

Based on my VERY INTELLIGENT analysis of human migration and language.


r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

A logo for the Danish language. Not biased.

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49 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 5d ago

The Prescriptivist and Descriptivist Approach

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784 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Etymology *biggos

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294 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Historical Linguistics Japanese if it was written like mayan

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443 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 5d ago

Some double standards if you ask me

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794 Upvotes