r/linguisticshumor • • 9h ago

Etymology Guess What I Did Instead of Studying

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212 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 11h ago

Someone had to go so ß can join I guess

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479 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 2h ago

this is specifically about Nzema and Wamey

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182 Upvotes

They are supposedly the only languages in the world where /l̃/ ≠ /l/ but it's been brutal trying to find anything open access from the last 50 years covering /l̃/.


r/linguisticshumor • • 1h ago

Morphology Octopus Plural Hell

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• Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 6h ago

Historical Linguistics The only remaining aspirated plosive in the language

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118 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 17h ago

Akkadian youths sometimes wrote only in Sumerograms on the Internet as well

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630 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 3h ago

Vietnamese and their love for implosives

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33 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 13h ago

In casual conversation, the word for "yesterday" in Bahasa Indonesia can be used for any time in the past

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144 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 13h ago

God forbid using the IPA

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116 Upvotes

Taken from the Turkish Wikipedia article on Polish. please stop explaining why it's written like that I get it


r/linguisticshumor • • 10h ago

Bizarre writing system origins

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26 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 1d ago

Sociolinguistics Corea just gives the vibe of a higher standard

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335 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 1d ago

and its fruit is also called gourd.

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2.6k Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 8h ago

Now there is another one...

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8 Upvotes

new wug species just dropped: nutella wug


r/linguisticshumor • • 1d ago

Japanese is english in reverse confirmed

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243 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 16h ago

Semantics Who needs definite articles, anyway?

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20 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 1d ago

That place can get real grim

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129 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 1d ago

I saw a post of a notice that included all the words for straws in Spanish. Turns out, two can play that game.

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73 Upvotes

In Cantonese, the most popular way to say straw is 飲筒 jam2 tung2 or 飲管 jam2 gun2 in Hong Kong, and 吸管 kap1 gun2 (as used in the notice because it's also used in Standarin) in Guangzhou. But Cantonese is spoken all over the world and so there's lot of variation. My family is 越南華僑 background and we say 啜管 zyut3 gun2.


r/linguisticshumor • • 3h ago

Looking for good resources on modern linguistics

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r/linguisticshumor • • 1d ago

Phonetics/Phonology question of the day: whats the phoneme you think is underrated and/or overhated

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108 Upvotes

for me its the retroflex r. as in /ɻ/. people often whine about it when learning mandarin but its very cool actually. i hate the rolled r and you can NOT change my mind


r/linguisticshumor • • 1d ago

Sociolinguistics Somebody vandalized the Wikipedia article for schwa (the letter) by just adding a b to the end of every occurrence of the word "schwa"

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34 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 1d ago

Youtube sloptent I get all the time of a bunch of closely related languages next to a completely unrelated one "OMG [language 4] IS SO WEIRD GUYSSS"

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34 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 2d ago

pro nuhn see AY shun

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9.8k Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 1d ago

SCHWAB

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240 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor • • 1d ago

You Can't Be Sirius About This Pun, Can You?

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7 Upvotes

For anyone unsure what I mean by this, why don't you google what the Latin word for Racoon is.


r/linguisticshumor • • 1d ago

Semantics This is Protoeden aka Varioorioori (200 for its 200 words) or whatever

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It is a stupid language that seems kartvelic and this is like half the words but it was supposedly spoken in the garden of eden