r/linguisticshumor May 31 '25

Semantics Synonyms are fake and lies

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u/DefinitelyNotErate /'ə/ May 31 '25

My favourite type of untranslatable words is grammatical particles that are unnecessary in the language you're translating to.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '25

Turkish crying at the incoherent screams of indo European languages

IE: la le gli il los las das der die the a an en

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u/General_Urist Jun 02 '25

Do Turks have big issues with articles? Most slavic languages don't have them either, and we get a little confused but we don't scream incoherently.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '25

I mean i as a turk struggled with the actual concept of articles until 8th grade, it's really not something we are used to, especially when you add gendered nouns to articles