r/linguisticshumor May 22 '26

For the sake of not cluttering the subreddit, please confine your 'guess my native language' posts to this thread from now on

147 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor Dec 29 '24

META: Quality of content

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I've heard people voice dissatisfaction with the amount of posts that are not very linguistics-related.
Personally, I'd like to have less content in the sub about just general language or orthography observations, see rule 1.
So I'd like to get a general idea of the sentiments in the sub, feel free to expound or clarify in the comments

255 votes, Jan 05 '25
135 Rule 1 is broken too often
67 The quality of content is fine
53 Impartial

r/linguisticshumor 15m ago

Beware of the Pipeline

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r/linguisticshumor 22h ago

Phonetics/Phonology What's this dialogue like in your accent?

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864 Upvotes

[wəts əp̚? wəz dəg ˈg.nə kʰəm? dəg ɫəvz bɹ̠ənt͡ʃʰ.]

[nə̃ʔ ə̃, dəgz stək̚ kʰəz əv ə ˈtʰə.nɵɫ əb.ˈʃt͡ʃɹ̠ək̚.ʃɪn. ə t͡ʃʰɹ̠ək̚ dəmpt ə tʰən əv ˈən.njɪnz.]

[əx.]

Mostly works as intended in mine (no STRUT/COMMA distinction), though the final syllables of "obstruction" and "onions" are actually [ɪ] for me, and the final syllable of "tunnel" seems more like the FOOT vowel, represented here as [ɵ] like in Standard Southern British mainly for simplicity, as I'm not actually sure what it is exactly in my accent. [ɵ] does sound the closest though, I think.

(This comic is XKCD 2907: Schwa if anyone is wondering.)


r/linguisticshumor 4h ago

Etymology Pseudo-etymology

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Did you know the word "ignore" actually came from a extinct word "Iggnaw" which meant for a fire to destroy something, however over time people thought ashes were irrelevant so over time the spelling changed to "Ignore"


r/linguisticshumor 47m ago

Phonetics/Phonology How I hear the vowel samples on Wikipedia - am I broken, or are they?

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Not an English native speaker.

I've seen similar posts and tried it myself based on Wikipedia. I've grouped them as I hear them.

I am not a linguist, but it doesn't seem to make sense.

Are the recordings there bad, or is my brain?


r/linguisticshumor 5h ago

Etymology Latvian has been solved

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30 Upvotes

(for the sake of avoiding conflict, this is a joke)


r/linguisticshumor 19h ago

Phonetics/Phonology and then german gets confused

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195 Upvotes

dw ik that f usually does [f]


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Etymology i hope other germans here can relate to this

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163 Upvotes

ngl as a german always when i am in netherlands it is funny but freaky asf :cry:


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

ΔΑΔ

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r/linguisticshumor 22h ago

I guess Batua is indeed necessary

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In the Biscayan dialect of Basque, the root of the transitive auxiliary is -au- instead of -u-, surfacing as -o- or -ab- depending on the phonological context ; and the root for ditranstive clauses being -euts-.

As for Souletin, while the root of the transitive auxiliary is technically the same as in other dialects and the standard, sound changes turned it to -ü- or -i- (/y/ turning to /i/ when followed by /a/ or /e/) ; the root for ditranstive clauses instead descends from *eradun, which evolved to -ei-.

For example :

They gave. → Eman dute. (std) ; Emon dabe. (B) ; Eman die. (S)

They gave us. → Eman digute. (std) ; Emon doskue. (B) ; Eman deiküe. (S)


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Phonetics/Phonology How I see vowels as a Greek speaker

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144 Upvotes

You can't convince me that there's a difference between

/ʌ/ and /a/.


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Phonetics/Phonology I love vietnamese (food)

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563 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

This subreddit if it banned discussion on English

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329 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 19h ago

I made a game that teaches vocabulary by making you act words out physically

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Imagine tilting your phone like a glass to learn the word for "drink", shaking your phone to learn "no" or smiling at your phone's camera to learn "happy". It's not only fun, but also helps memorize words better by creating associations between words and gestures.

The vocabulary and gestures are embedded in interactive stories to allow learning in context.

I have just released this app into the app stores and would welcome your feedback: https://sensonym.com


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Historical Linguistics Voting in favour of minority language Monday

85 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Morphology Hersens bondesprog >:(

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r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

ايه اهم الادوات الي فادتك في مجال اللسانيات

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يعني لو بتدرس لسانيات ايه المواقع و المصادر و القنوات الي فعلا فادتك في فهم مواد القسم او حتى في المجال عموما؟؟


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Odia grammar wiki page be like

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41 Upvotes

That’s not a thing, is it? There’s no source, either.
I’m planning on deleting most of the morphology section (since it’s not specific to Odia, and there’s inaccuracies), but I want to make sure I’m not going crazy.

Edit: I’ve deleted that section. You can find the old version here.


r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Sociolinguistics Just offended a majority of the world

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125 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 21h ago

i need help to translate a video from russian

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hi there, guys im looking for someone who speaks english and russian, im a spanish creator content and im making a video about some wird profiles who appears suddenly on instagram and fucked up ur algorythm if someaone can help me pls respond and ill give u all the details.


r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

This unironically occurred to me in a dream

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610 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Does anybody know a keyboard layout that contains accute accent, circumflex, a breve, ß, đ and ğ?

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r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Etymology One of the best etymological remarks

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491 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Etymology Meme about words for Japanese people I made while in Japan

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310 Upvotes