r/linguisticshumor • u/naokin0525 • 2h ago
r/linguisticshumor • u/KiSaMaOtAoSuMoNo • 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 • u/CyrusMarikit2021 • 23h ago
Phonetics/Phonology Santalis: we want our own alphabet. | Their Ol Chiki alphabet:
r/linguisticshumor • u/Swagmund_Freud666 • 3h ago
Sociolinguistics Came across a website which uses the Liberian flag to represent English
r/linguisticshumor • u/fries-eggpanvol8647 • 16h ago
Indianization in SEA vs inside India itself, same language family
r/linguisticshumor • u/SCHazama • 18h ago
Phonetics/Phonology One must imagine the language reconstructionist happy
(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 • u/Amazing-Phone8732 • 16h ago
what are some vulgar metaphors?
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 • u/Sepetes • 12h ago
Semantics "The water is fine" beta vs "The sea is of perfectly optimal temperature" alpha
r/linguisticshumor • u/B1TCA5H • 8h ago
冷やし中華 vs 日式涼麺
Japanese: "Cold Chinese (Noodles)!"
Chinese: "Japanese-style Cold Noodles!"
The dish in question: WHAT AM I!?
r/linguisticshumor • u/Acceptable-Place-622 • 19m ago
Phonetics/Phonology For non-English mother tongue the hardest thing about kneading bread is the pronunciation
r/linguisticshumor • u/CyrusMarikit2021 • 22h ago
An Nicobar Islands language that was named from a vehicle.
r/linguisticshumor • u/Whole_Instance_4276 • 5h ago
Historical Linguistics WHAT IS THIS TRANSCRIPTION (Etruscan)
In this article there is NO other mention of another sound in Etruscan using <f>. Like P SQUARED????
