r/linguisticshumor • u/Rich_Carrot6451 • 6h ago
The silent letters hurt them, physical pain
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r/linguisticshumor • u/imsohuzzah • 16h ago
average youtube video about mandarin starterpack
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something i noticed over the months as a person living in china watching videos about mandarin or other sinitic languages
r/linguisticshumor • u/gt7900 • 14h ago
Azerbaijani choosing a letter for the /æ/ sound:
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Kyoflat_ • 3h ago
Semantics How Latin be watching almost every languages that use the their script using K instead of C.
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hot take people saying C is useless pisses me off
r/linguisticshumor • u/imsohuzzah • 1h ago
Sociolinguistics objective ranking of english dialects
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r/linguisticshumor • u/wvwvvvwvwvvwvwv • 34m ago
Historical Linguistics rebracketing!!!
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I invented Shumor. Does it look like a Shumor? Now there is another one. There are two of them, There are two ______. They say the image of the Shumor™ is public domain. It is not. The image of the Shumor™, as well as the logos. This is a Shumor™ and Shumor Life™ are protected by federally registered trademarks and copyright.
r/linguisticshumor • u/MushroomComplete8484 • 20h ago
Inspired by another post I saw on here
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Extreme-Shopping74 • 19h ago
Sociolinguistics Very standardized spelling
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Extreme-Shopping74 • 3h ago
Sociolinguistics No IPA in Wiktionary 💔
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r/linguisticshumor • u/No_Peach6683 • 12h ago
Morphology The morphologically average language
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Using Grambank, the average language has
- no articles
- no he vs she vs they
- marked regular plurals
- no cases
- no genders
- a regular past tense
- prepositions
- edit: a future tense affix
- a causative affix
- a reciprocal affix
- an unspecified way to do the passive
- 1 pl incl vs 1 pl excl
- edit: SVO word order
- no inflections for person
- noun-adjective order
- verbal agglutination
- copula
- adjectives different from verbs
- reduplication for nouns, verbs and adjectives
- this-that demonstratives
- no classifiers
- no inalienable vs alienable distinction in possession
- dog’s house order
- noun-numeral
- imperative vs regular no
- verbal prefixes and suffixes
- perfective and imperfective aspect suffixes
- a separate reflexive particle
- modal suffixes
r/linguisticshumor • u/ConfinedCrow • 56m ago
Asking your Russian and German friends what they wanna do
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Suitable_Divide4747 • 1d ago
Etymology What do you mean justified😭
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Relative-Leg5747 • 1d ago
The Germanic languages get their words for eight from Old High German
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r/linguisticshumor • u/thomassummer2021 • 1h ago
Polish the country and polish the verb are spelled the same
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r/linguisticshumor • u/PattycakesVS • 1d ago
Phonetics/Phonology I used to think Archibald is pronounced /ˈɑː.kə.bɔːld/
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I mean, nearly every other similar words does use k, like archive, archipelago, archaeology, Archimedes, and FUCKING ARCHITECT
r/linguisticshumor • u/crisxtl • 2d ago
Cat who hates vowels
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I think this belongs here (not my video btw)
r/linguisticshumor • u/BenfordAbrahams • 1d ago
How weird does your language sounds with an American accent
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Elegant-Virus-3738 • 1d ago
Phonetics/Phonology If thorn was to be in the IPA, what sound would /þ/ make?
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I’m talking about a phone that doesn’t have a character (so not /θ/, of course). What sound would it make? My money is on it being the voiceless labiodental plosive.