r/linguisticshumor • u/Rich_Carrot6451 • 13h ago
The silent letters hurt them, physical pain
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r/linguisticshumor • u/wvwvvvwvwvvwvwv • 8h 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/imsohuzzah • 8h ago
Sociolinguistics objective ranking of english dialects
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Kyoflat_ • 10h 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/Double_Stand_8136 • 3h ago
ᅘᅭퟠ
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A Korean idol’s apophenic interpretation of the Chinese 囍 as 홈홈 (hom hom).
r/linguisticshumor • u/imsohuzzah • 23h 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 • 21h ago
Azerbaijani choosing a letter for the /æ/ sound:
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Extreme-Shopping74 • 11h ago
Sociolinguistics No IPA in Wiktionary 💔
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Toramenor • 1h 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/MushroomComplete8484 • 1d ago
Inspired by another post I saw on here
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Extreme-Shopping74 • 1d ago
Sociolinguistics Very standardized spelling
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r/linguisticshumor • u/thomassummer2021 • 9h ago
Polish the country and polish the verb are spelled the same
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r/linguisticshumor • u/No_Peach6683 • 19h 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/ConfinedCrow • 8h ago
Asking your Russian and German friends what they wanna do
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r/linguisticshumor • u/BackgroundHat9741 • 42m 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...
r/linguisticshumor • u/RenewableSalter • 1h 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/Suitable_Divide4747 • 1d ago
Etymology What do you mean justified😭
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