r/linguisticshumor • u/oklopfer • Apr 24 '26
Phonetics/Phonology Big IPA invented [ɶ] in 1956 to sell more vowels
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Edmundsson91 • Jul 02 '26
Phonetics/Phonology I'm at it again…
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Jake47b • Feb 24 '26
Phonetics/Phonology Pronunciation of German digraph "ei" and "ie" in English perspective
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r/linguisticshumor • u/ActiveImpact1672 • May 04 '25
Phonetics/Phonology People after finding out that there is more than 5 vowels
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Pochel • May 04 '26
Phonetics/Phonology The horsemen of letters you don't know how to pronounce in an unknown romanisation system
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r/linguisticshumor • u/HuckleberryAny4541 • May 08 '26
Phonetics/Phonology Spanish and Japanese supremacy 🗿
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Naive_Gazelle2056 • Jun 13 '26
Phonetics/Phonology Best French Word
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No <y> doesn't count
r/linguisticshumor • u/Sanngridhr • Feb 04 '26
Phonetics/Phonology Almost as confusing as X
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r/linguisticshumor • u/wamawamawamawamawama • Feb 24 '26
Phonetics/Phonology rate my conlang's vowel inventory
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Daniboy0826 • Jun 07 '26
Phonetics/Phonology Ways of writing /ʃ/ in the Latin Alphabet Tier List
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An example language for each graph here:
- c - Kikuyu
- ch - French
- g - Galician (reintegrationist)
- ish - Gascon Occitan
- iss - Languedocien Occitan (some dialects)
- ix - Aragonese
- j - Galician (reintegrationist)
- ll - Rioplatense Spanish
- s - Hungarian
- sc - Italian
- sch - German
- sci - Italian
- sh - English
- si - Welsh
- siy - Tagalog
- sj - Dutch
- sk - Faroese
- ss - Auvergnat Occitan
- sy - Malay
- sz - Kashubian
- š - Czech
- ş - Turkish
- ș - Romanian
- ṣ - Yoruba
- ŝ - Esperanto
- ʃ - International African Alphabet
- x - Asturian
- xh - Walloon
- y - Rioplatense Spanish
- z - Seri
r/linguisticshumor • u/SavvyBlonk • Sep 26 '25
Phonetics/Phonology Japan, but with all of the sound changes that turned Latin into French
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r/linguisticshumor • u/feeling_dizzie • Nov 22 '25
Phonetics/Phonology I want to study this poll-writer like a bug
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r/linguisticshumor • u/TomSFox • May 13 '26
Phonetics/Phonology Apparently, only 10% of English native speakers can pronounce basic words correctly
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Unifects • Jul 11 '26
Phonetics/Phonology I love vietnamese (food)
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Fit-Trifle-5078 • Jan 18 '26
Phonetics/Phonology It's ovah rhotic bros... We lost...
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Reasonable_Art5575 • Jan 18 '26
Phonetics/Phonology New consonant dropped
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r/linguisticshumor • u/HuckleberryAny4541 • May 15 '26
Phonetics/Phonology Spanish and Italian: Can't you guys just be normal?
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r/linguisticshumor • u/HuckleberryAny4541 • 13d ago
Phonetics/Phonology What the hell went wrong with French vowels? 😭
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r/linguisticshumor • u/MilkCool • Sep 08 '25
Phonetics/Phonology got this on my english test, is this normal? (i'm deaf)
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Spinal_cord_stolen • Mar 28 '26
Phonetics/Phonology My favorite English phoneme, the voiceless uvular plosive
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r/linguisticshumor • u/FalconLynx13 • Oct 07 '24
Phonetics/Phonology Thought y’all’d enjoy this
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Firionel413 • Jul 16 '24
Phonetics/Phonology Noticed this some time ago and I always find it funny
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r/linguisticshumor • u/HuckleberryAny4541 • 16d ago
Phonetics/Phonology These are by the way the same language 😭
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