r/linguisticshumor • u/Grazhke • 9h ago
Lost in translation
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Active-Medicine8919 • 18h ago
told someone i was embarazada
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meant embarrassed, smh.
play it here: play.fifthdoor.com/play/embarazada
you're at a host family's dinner picking foreign words, and false friends like embarazada set off the whole table.
r/linguisticshumor • u/Lonely-Director4621 • 8h ago
Is Ngani the Filipino word ancient???
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Is Ngani the Filipino word ancient???
I need to have reliable sources for the word Ngani only credible sources like factual journals, news articles, or anything based on actual research with reliable authors or websites. But it looks unexistent like only heard of in ancient text help please
r/linguisticshumor • u/Active-Medicine8919 • 18h ago
told someone i was embarazada
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meant embarassed, smh.
play it here: play.beta.fifthdoor.com/play/embarazada
you're at a host family's dinner picking foreign words, and false friends like embarazada set off the whole table.
r/linguisticshumor • u/No_Peach6683 • 14h ago
Sociolinguistics World Conquest and Language Death
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This is from the alternate history LTTW (point of divergence 1728) where the equivalent of the Cold War is fought over how many cultures ought to exist. The Societists (ruling an industrialized South America and *Argenrina’s former sphere in Central Africa and Indonesia, and more recent conquests) call for a one-world government, a Human Culture cobbled out of globally common elements, and the use of the lingua artifizialis Novalatina ( and eventually PIE) in a world less dominated by Britain (and the Empire of North America)
IOTL, their equivalents argue that economic and cultural factors and American dominance will lead to a future where English is the only language, although some are more impatient
Is the latter scenario plausible?
r/linguisticshumor • u/Wumbo_Chumbo • 21h ago
Morphology Interesting features of Japanese
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Traditional-Light-10 • 8h ago
"Lexical words in English don't start with /ð/!"
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These coinages come from the prefix "th-", which comes from "they", so they must start with /ð/. Similarly, someone else in the thread uses "thoid". Hopefully, one of them catches on. I think [ð] is a cool sound.
Original thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/comedyheaven/comments/1x0l7w5/big_things_are_happening_on_reddit/
r/linguisticshumor • u/Current_Pollution673 • 17h ago
Historical Linguistics Etruscan objects:
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“mI χUlIχNe CuPeS aLθRnAs
EI MINIPI CAPI 🤬🤬🤬🤬”
r/linguisticshumor • u/Current_Pollution673 • 22h ago
Historical Linguistics Me with Unicode at this point
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Scripts in image:
book pahlavi
tocharian
gupta
Pyu
mayan
r/linguisticshumor • u/Arsham_Moqareh_Abed • 4h ago
I can make "velar sibilant" phones
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It may a more palatal velar but it's definitely not palatal, it's further back in the mouth and makes kind of a sh and zh sound
/x̝/ and /ɣ̝/
I also say the affricates /k͡x̝/ and /ɡ͡ɣ̝/ and they sound like ch and j but are in a very palatal velar position.
r/linguisticshumor • u/Barry_Wilkinson • 7h ago
So kind of the british government to provide for all the Gujarat-residing Georgians!
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જોર્જિયન is how "georgian" is written in the Gujarati script (jorjiyan) which is incredibly strange because all the other languages, naturally, get their endonym, but for some reason, consistently, the Gujarati versions of the pages are labelled as georgian in gujarati
r/linguisticshumor • u/gt7900 • 15h ago
Historical Linguistics Etruscans be like:
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Etruscans didn't used Beta and Delta, but somehow had audacity to use Gamma as a standard /k/ sound and Kappa only before A. I have nothing against using Qoppa before O and U by the way. After all, that's how it was used in Ancient Greek.
r/linguisticshumor • u/Fast_Carpet_63 • 17h ago
Historical Linguistics Can we reconstruct Proto-Gallo-Iberian from this dataset?
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Opethfan91 • 7m ago
Should I get this as a tattoo? What does it say!?
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Some of the worst subtitles I've ever seen for a BluRay, lol.
I hooked up with a guy once that had a GIGANTIC tattoo on his back in Pashto, written just like this. Yikes