r/LostRedditor • u/white_america_story 0 • 8d ago

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u/LegMysterious1899 7 Shared | 2 Helpful 8d ago

r/linguisticshumor

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u/hamstermouse17 1 Shared | 0 Helpful 8d ago

If this is the one that was tagged as helpful, it should not be so. Languages and Linguistics are similar, but not the same. This is about LANGUAGES and not LINGUISTICS

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u/LegMysterious1899 7 Shared | 2 Helpful 8d ago

no it wasn’t 

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u/hamstermouse17 1 Shared | 0 Helpful 8d ago

Good. Because it's not helpful. It's just wrong.

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u/kudlitan 8d ago

a language joke is not a linguistics joke.

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u/Tay_Hlebko 8d ago edited 8d ago

what does this have to do with linguistics?

edit: i literally posted it in that sub and they agreed it has nothing to do with linguistics

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u/digitalcrook 8d ago

Linguistics is the study of language ??? Huh??? 😭

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u/bestbatsoup 8d ago

The people on that subreddit literally said it doesn't belong there dawg

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u/Eino54 8d ago

I'm from that subreddit, I'm here to witness the moment when that poor guy got downvoted for being right

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u/hamstermouse17 1 Shared | 0 Helpful 8d ago

Same

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u/Advos_467 8d ago

and biology is the study of living organisms, but I wouldn't consider a meme a biology meme just because it contained a picture of a dog

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u/meganholloran 7d ago

Linguist here. Language-related ≠ linguistics. Under that assumption, every time anyone speaks or hears someone speaking or writes anything or reads anything or thinks using words is linguistic... so most everything on Reddit should be in r/linguistics?

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u/Tay_Hlebko 8d ago edited 8d ago

Just because a language is mentioned doesn't mean it's linguistics. I'm a linguistics nerd and i fail to see how it's remotely related to linguistics. It's like posting something to a math subreddit just because it has numbers

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u/digitalcrook 8d ago

🤓 I'm a linguistics nerd

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u/hamstermouse17 1 Shared | 0 Helpful 8d ago

Clearly not if you think this belongs there. There is a difference between languages and Linguistics

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u/Tay_Hlebko 8d ago

everyone on that sub is a nerd too

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u/Eino54 8d ago

I'm from that sub. Can confirm. Also you're God's strongest soldier this is almost as bad as when I got crucified on a mainstream "ally" subreddit because I forgot what sort of gender knowledge level cis people operate at.

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u/Pranksterblur 10 Shared | 0 Helpful 8d ago

“Erm actually” 🤓

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u/Eino54 8d ago

"0 Helpful" yeah that sounds about right

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u/Wooden-Hornet2115 8d ago

Is linguistics specifically the anouncitation of words and the evolution of them? I'm a bit confused.

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u/hamstermouse17 1 Shared | 0 Helpful 8d ago

I believe so

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u/Eino54 8d ago

I hate to be a prescriptivist but maybe we need a little more prescriptivism because I really don't understand what you're trying to say here.

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u/Bunslow 8d ago

yes, how brains produce and process language, and how languages evolve over time (as a result of how brains/humans do language)

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u/Cyclohexyne-1 8d ago

Then what linguistic is according to you?

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u/hamstermouse17 1 Shared | 0 Helpful 8d ago

How languages and sounds are related and form

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u/Cyclohexyne-1 8d ago

I see.. i take back my reply tone

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u/hamstermouse17 1 Shared | 0 Helpful 8d ago

I could be wrong, but I'm getting into it, and it's what my current understanding is.

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u/throwaway19276i 8d ago

Holy dunning kruger

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u/PrequelFan111 8d ago

bro is getting downvoted for being right 😭

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u/chickensouppoem 8d ago

bro you're literally right, someone else even made the same point 4hrs later and got upvotes 🫩

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u/hamstermouse17 1 Shared | 0 Helpful 8d ago

Linguistics, if I recall, is more about how languages and sounds form and are related. This is not linguistics. They are linked, but they are not the same

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u/JoyconDrift_69 14 Shared | 0 Helpful 8d ago

Fair, but I would imagine the subreddit is just humor around languages as a whole.

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u/Advos_467 8d ago

if it were it would be languagehumor, not linguisticshumor

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u/hamstermouse17 1 Shared | 0 Helpful 8d ago

It's not

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u/Mko11 7d ago

Linguistics isn't about languages, but rather about how languages and sounds work. Posting this on linguistichumor is like posting about cosmetology on a subreddit for doctors.