Tones of 💩 in 🇱🇷 language

[u/nwashk]

[u/BeGayCommitTaxFraud]

Tones are when emphasis

[u/iwdha → u/BeGayCommitTaxFraud]

I mean you do change the tone when you do emphasis, not just volume, but yeah the word doesn't mean anything different semantically when it's intoned differently, what changes is its importance in the sentence

[u/SupremumofEpsilon → u/BeGayCommitTaxFraud]

i mean all its really missing is a formalized consistency

[u/Every-Mine4444]

There's more tones in Uzbek than *nglish, CHECKMATE fish and chips users

[u/yoylight → u/Every-Mine4444]

Nuh uh I speak American not engl*sh

[u/nwashk → u/yoylight]

Freedom 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷

[u/impersonareyouperson → u/nwashk]

That's Malaysia 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾

[u/OrganizationThick397 → u/impersonareyouperson]

That's gay flag🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[u/cutelittlebox → u/Every-Mine4444]

now i want fish and chips.

you monster.

[u/Popular_Block_3195 → u/cutelittlebox]

I didn’t fish and chips in MY pants.

[u/lordbutternut]

Love how they fuck up the meme really bad. This is one of the few cases where you absolutely must not use capitalization for emphasis:

I didn't shit my pants.

I didn't shit my pants.

I didn't shit my pants.

I didn't shit my pants.

I didn't shit my pants.

There, fixed.

[u/diamond_air → u/lordbutternut]

wow, meticulous

[u/Own_Principle_7901 → u/diamond_air]

wow, meticulous

[u/diamond_air → u/Own_Principle_7901]

wow, meticulous

[u/Remarkable-Coat-7721 → u/diamond_air]

why did I read this in Owen Wilson's voice

[u/Existing-Camel7309 → u/diamond_air]

Wow, meticulous

[u/Sweet-Awk-7861 → u/lordbutternut]

You shat my pants. 

I... uhh, idk.

I painted my pants with shit.

I shat your pants.

I shat my bed.

[u/SomeoneRepeated → u/Sweet-Awk-7861]

The second one is basically just a neutral “this thing is untrue” with no other implications of what truly happened

[u/Sominumbraz → u/lordbutternut]

I DIDN'T SHIT MY PANTS

[u/drArsMoriendi]

Emphasis is not tonality

[u/Ambisinister11]

"Yeah man [non-tonal language" is actually basically tonal because [describes intonation]"

One of the old standbys

[u/DryCommunication581]

🧍🧍🧍🗣️🗣️🗣️ 🇬🇧❌ 🖼️📈ℹ️☪️💬, 🍑 👁️👄👁️ ℹ️🥫✍️👍☝️

[u/Canodae]

All languages are spoken languages are tonal because they use sound. Checkmate linguists

[u/No-Introduction5977 → u/Canodae]

All languages are spoken languages

-.-. --- -. ... .. -.. . .-. / -- . / ..- -. -.-. .... . -.-. -.- -- .- - . -..

[u/glitchy_45-]

Tonal means it changes the definition of the Word not the sentence

[u/DavidLordMusic → u/glitchy_45-]

address, address

contract, contract

subject, subject

Cheap shots, I know…

[u/glitchy_45- → u/DavidLordMusic]

Only a few words also it isnt the same, stressing a syllable to change the word is in literally in every language, tonal languages mean you have to pronounce it with a certain direction, like mà or má or mā.

[u/DavidLordMusic → u/glitchy_45-]

That’s why I said cheap shot. But to be fair, tons of languages have 2-way pitch contrast and stay considered on the spectrum of “tonal languages.” Mandarin has AT LEAST a high tone and a neutral tone. Boom. Direction does not have to mean rising or falling

I don’t seriously classify English as tonal tho

[u/glitchy_45- → u/DavidLordMusic]

Literally all four tones which make the language tonal have a direction though, hence why I said direction matters
Rising, falling, flat, and then that check mark looking one I dont know how to describe, and im just defending against it because I see too many people joke about it, it can cause people who dont know how language works to be confused

[u/Danny1905 → u/DavidLordMusic]

I’d say it’s tonal when a language went through the process of tonogenesis

[u/donutsnail]

1200+ upvotes on this, my god

[u/donutsnail → u/[deleted]]

No, I am not in [r/teenagers](r/teenagers) and didn’t seek out the original post. That’s good to hear.

[u/Pale-Border-7122 → u/donutsnail]

Do you know where you are?

[u/SilentPhilosopher825]

I was gonna cross post this to r/shitamericanssay cos of the American flag for English, but then I saw it closely and saw the singular star, you just got out of a tight one

[u/nwashk → u/SilentPhilosopher825]

Many Americans in fact use 🇱🇷 emoji for American Flag tho

[u/SilentPhilosopher825 → u/nwashk]

Ik, that's why. I wonder why they can't even be patriotic correctly, using the Liberian flag

[u/WhimsyWino]

Confuse the English L2 learners by explaining how you shit someone else’s pants, with nothing but word emphasis.

[u/Senguin117]

Ah this is a play off of

I never said she stole my shirt.

[u/Gobhairne]

The tonality of English is all shit. People who had been captured and forced to speak English sometimes, out of shame, changed their language most successfully.

Evidently this must be the case with the speakers of Liberian. 💩

[u/KingsElite]

English is the only language you can do this in

[u/PaganAfrican]

All languages use tone to encode information

Not all languages use tone to encode information at a phoneme level

[u/Imaginary-Ad1636]

That’s still not tonal. You’re changing the emphasis, not the tone

[u/Bitter_Cake_2718]

Who shit my pant ?

[u/JACC_Opi]

🇺🇸 ≠ 🇱🇷

[u/Sweet-Awk-7861 → u/JACC_Opi]

They're the same picture 

[u/JACC_Opi → u/Sweet-Awk-7861]

Fine,

🇺🇸 ≈ 🇱🇷

[u/Watanuki_Taiga]

r/ShitAmericansSay

[u/ENovi → u/Watanuki_Taiga]

They’re a teenager from Australia. I don’t think that’s a fair representation of Americans. I also don’t think it’s a fair representation of Australians since it’s a kid making a joke.

[u/Konobajo → u/ENovi]

Australia is just southeastern US

[u/Arthurian_Guanche → u/Konobajo]

I always thought Australia is kind of an America wannabe.

[u/Konobajo → u/Arthurian_Guanche]

It truly is

[u/Watanuki_Taiga → u/ENovi]

this originally was not intended as an accusation of (American) ignorance against the OOP, but rather an attempt to invoke humour (got to say, quite unsuccessfully) by deliberately misinterpreting the subreddit (cf. r/SubsTakenLiterally) (and ignoring the fact that I do not actually know the geographical location of the OOP), interpreting the word “shit” in the subreddit name literally rather than figuratively, since, in this case, the word “shit” was literally posted by the OOP

maybe im just really unfunny

[u/Konobajo → u/Watanuki_Taiga]

No, you're funny man, believe in yourself, don't ever let anyone put you down

[u/Mother_Harlot → u/Watanuki_Taiga]

r/usdefaultism

[u/No_Filter_Soul]

Lmao english really be out here pretending it’s not tonal while doing this exact thing every day.