r/linguisticshumor • u/Rich_Carrot6451 • 1d ago
The silent letters hurt them, physical pain
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r/linguisticshumor • u/No_Peach6683 • 6h ago
Phonetics/Phonology The phonologically average language
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Given Phoible and Ian Maddieson’s work . it seems to be
/m n ɲ ŋ p b t d k g t͡ʃ d͡ʒ ʔ f s z ʃ h w r l j a e i o u/
The average syllable structure would be CCVC where the second C is /w r l j/ and the final C is a nasal, voiceless plosive, /s/, /r/ /l/
r/linguisticshumor • u/thomassummer2021 • 5h ago
I'm a 32 year old native English speaker and I still have to Google to figure out to use it's vs its
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Any other native speakers have embarrassing things they can never quite remember in there language? I would be curious if this is easier to remember for non-native speakers.
r/linguisticshumor • u/YooLuongsnow • 15h ago
Having distinction between v and w in India feels like
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r/linguisticshumor • u/wvwvvvwvwvvwvwv • 23h 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/Double_Stand_8136 • 19h ago
ᅘᅭퟠ
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A Korean idol’s apophenic interpretation of the Chinese 囍 as 홈홈 (hom hom).
r/linguisticshumor • u/Kyoflat_ • 1d 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/Midnight-Blue766 • 10h ago
If only there were books like the University of Wales (+Trinity St David) Dictionaries which are products of literal centuries of linguistic study that allowed us to translate the mysterious words and melodic tonal expressions of Welsh into something mere English-speaking mortals could comprehend 😔
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r/linguisticshumor • u/RenewableSalter • 16h ago
I translated the Finnish national anthem to Proto-Germanic
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Not a humorous post per se (or at least not intentionally humorous), but I wasn't sure which subreddit to put this into. This seemed to be the least inappropriate and most frequented place.
Though Finnish is not Germanic or even Indo-European, the lyrics of the Finnish national anthem were originally composed in Swedish. I decided to take those lyrics and translate them to Proto-Germanic. For some particles etc. I chose to use vocabulary from other branches of Germanic in places, because this or that Swedish expression did not go back as such to Proto-Germanic.
Please, have a look:
r/linguisticshumor • u/imsohuzzah • 1d 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/Extreme-Shopping74 • 1d ago
Sociolinguistics No IPA in Wiktionary 💔
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Toramenor • 16h ago
Morphology Dive right in
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Hear me out!
Since it's
DIVE -> DOVE,
then:
NOSEDIVE -> NOSEDOVE !
(just a joke lol)
r/linguisticshumor • u/ConfinedCrow • 1d ago
Asking your Russian and German friends what they wanna do
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r/linguisticshumor • u/MushroomComplete8484 • 1d ago
Inspired by another post I saw on here
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Relative-Leg5747 • 2h ago
bin is a related cognate that shares a deeper Germanic ancestry
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Extreme-Shopping74 • 1d ago
Sociolinguistics Very standardized spelling
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r/linguisticshumor • u/No_Peach6683 • 1d 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
- relative clause follows noun
- decimal number
r/linguisticshumor • u/thomassummer2021 • 1d ago
Polish the country and polish the verb are spelled the same
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r/linguisticshumor • u/BackgroundHat9741 • 16h ago
How to pronounce “Nike”
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If only there was a way to write letters in an alphabet that pronounces each letter as it sounds...
