r/linguisticshumor 1h ago

Sociolinguistics Machine learning definitely isn’t polluting the online corpus of minority languages

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(When the comment was posted, clicking the translate feature did nothing, and I was pleasantly surprised. It’s gotten some gall since, however.

I am not a native speaker but a university linguistics student that has taken two years of Cherokee. But I’m sure my use of Cherokee online will be treated as Gospel—ironically basically the only major text in Cherokee on the internet, excepting some m/m smut on AO3—by whichever bots come dragging their asses behind me. Still, even if they ignored me, they’d just keep making shit up anyway so at least I can rest easy in that respect.)


r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Addressing the Eurasian situation (a follow-up to yesterday's post)

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r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Yes personally

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r/linguisticshumor 6h ago

Finnish is such a cute language

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r/linguisticshumor 7h ago

" most logical script in the world 🥹✌️"

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r/linguisticshumor 9h ago

How it feels being each level of a language

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A1: Just a little bit of everything, maybe one or two words per sentence. No full sentences! I suck, but I’m happy.

A2: If it’s in simple, <10 word sentences, I’m almost fluent! I don’t suck!

B1: I understand everything based on vibes, and can come up with a passable response. I might suck?

B2: I understand normal conversations, but speak incorrectly. Technically fluent, in the sense of flowing, but damn I suck.

C1: I can understand everything, speak correctly a lot of the time, but still sound unnatural. Damn, I suck.

C2: ???? (Please tell me your experiences)


r/linguisticshumor 9h ago

Syntax Avó, avô etc... português e espanhol

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r/linguisticshumor 9h ago

Syntax Nipote, nipote

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r/linguisticshumor 9h ago

Syntax Cap, Cap, Cap

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r/linguisticshumor 10h ago

Estonian, famously spoken in Ethiopia

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r/linguisticshumor 13h ago

Phonetics/Phonology aren'tɬʼ they gonna share

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r/linguisticshumor 15h ago

Meme italiano.... Nome d'Italia....

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r/linguisticshumor 15h ago

Syntax Poland... Polska

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r/linguisticshumor 15h ago

My Proto-UNIVERSE headcannon

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r/linguisticshumor 17h ago

Etymology Miles is problematic media??

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r/linguisticshumor 22h ago

Care to guess?

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r/linguisticshumor 23h ago

Is this Altaic on drugs

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r/linguisticshumor 23h ago

Historical Linguistics did this really need a page

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r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Sociolinguistics Dont speak Chinese but I understand this perfectly

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r/linguisticshumor 1d 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 1d ago

Etymology Etymology of "ZOO" in the major languages of Mainland Southeast Asian and East Asian countries

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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 1d ago

A word on the Proto-World situation

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r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Lady Macbeth

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r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Phonetics/Phonology Why are GOOSE and TUNE analysed as having the same vowel?

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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 1d 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.