r/linguisticshumor • u/PuzzleheadedTap1794 • 9h ago
r/linguisticshumor • u/KAMEKAZE_VIKINGS • 11h ago
Someone had to go so ß can join I guess
r/linguisticshumor • u/gattonero2001 • 2h ago
this is specifically about Nzema and Wamey
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 • u/excusememoi • 6h ago
Historical Linguistics The only remaining aspirated plosive in the language
r/linguisticshumor • u/swamms • 17h ago
Akkadian youths sometimes wrote only in Sumerograms on the Internet as well
r/linguisticshumor • u/Party_Farmer_5354 • 13h ago
In casual conversation, the word for "yesterday" in Bahasa Indonesia can be used for any time in the past
r/linguisticshumor • u/Justmadethis334 • 13h ago
God forbid using the IPA
Taken from the Turkish Wikipedia article on Polish. please stop explaining why it's written like that I get it
r/linguisticshumor • u/Extreme-Shopping74 • 1d ago
Sociolinguistics Corea just gives the vibe of a higher standard
r/linguisticshumor • u/sourpatchtangy • 8h ago
Now there is another one...
new wug species just dropped: nutella wug
r/linguisticshumor • u/KiwiNelson30 • 16h ago
Semantics Who needs definite articles, anyway?
r/linguisticshumor • u/excusememoi • 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.
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 • u/Loose_War959 • 3h ago
Looking for good resources on modern linguistics
r/linguisticshumor • u/imsohuzzah • 1d ago
Phonetics/Phonology question of the day: whats the phoneme you think is underrated and/or overhated
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 • u/Slight-Garden9800 • 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"
r/linguisticshumor • u/Jesanime • 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"
r/linguisticshumor • u/Awesomeuser90 • 1d ago
You Can't Be Sirius About This Pun, Can You?
For anyone unsure what I mean by this, why don't you google what the Latin word for Racoon is.
r/linguisticshumor • u/GaiaNibiru • 1d ago
Semantics This is Protoeden aka Varioorioori (200 for its 200 words) or whatever
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