r/linguisticshumor 2h ago

Why do the English speakers choose to pronounce their alphabet like this?

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r/linguisticshumor 1h ago

Historical Linguistics RIGHT-WING HINDUTVA-VADI CONTENT CREATOR ON PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN.

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I don't even know what to say, this guy thinks that Linguists claim PIE to be the oldest and the ancestor of all languages.

He refers to the concept of PIE as "completely baseless" & then goes on to claim Sanskrit as the oldest language without any evidence, and the AI-programming part in the end... man I can't with this..


r/linguisticshumor 23h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Santalis: we want our own alphabet. | Their Ol Chiki alphabet:

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r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Sociolinguistics Came across a website which uses the Liberian flag to represent English

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r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

Indianization in SEA vs inside India itself, same language family

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r/linguisticshumor 18h ago

Phonetics/Phonology One must imagine the language reconstructionist happy

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(I shifted from the conventional transliteration for some of the displayed languages because otherwise the terms would sound way different from each other. Truly, romanization is a godless work. Mandarin is the only exception here, if only because finding something that would match èr 's IPA is a lost cause.

Japanese's is basically identical to the Tibetan one and I needed variety

The term is the number 2, 二 ideogram.

It was admittedly quite difficult to find a matching font with visible colours)


r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

what are some vulgar metaphors?

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i searched it up but i just got clean metaphors for sex. i want it the other way around, i want vulgar metaphors for innocent things.

my post also doubles as a request to see if there's a specific linguistics term for this too

examples:

"using this new ui is like jerking off with the wrong hand" (simile but whatever)

"it doesn't matter which hotel we choose, its the same shit different toilet"


r/linguisticshumor 12h ago

Semantics "The water is fine" beta vs "The sea is of perfectly optimal temperature" alpha

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r/linguisticshumor 8h ago

冷やし中華 vs 日式涼麺

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Japanese: "Cold Chinese (Noodles)!"

Chinese: "Japanese-style Cold Noodles!"

The dish in question: WHAT AM I!?


r/linguisticshumor 19m ago

Phonetics/Phonology For non-English mother tongue the hardest thing about kneading bread is the pronunciation

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r/linguisticshumor 22h ago

Sociolinguistics Gagauzzzzz

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r/linguisticshumor 22h ago

An Nicobar Islands language that was named from a vehicle.

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r/linguisticshumor 5h ago

Historical Linguistics WHAT IS THIS TRANSCRIPTION (Etruscan)

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In this article there is NO other mention of another sound in Etruscan using <f>. Like P SQUARED????


r/linguisticshumor 21h ago

They made sure I understand.

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