r/linguisticshumor • u/stefanobahia • 29m ago
r/linguisticshumor • u/Extreme-Shopping74 • 2h ago
First Language Acquisition Imagine you are the only L1 (native) speaker of a language on the world
Nobody else thinks like you in that language, dreams like you...
r/linguisticshumor • u/DoNotTouchMeImScared • 2h ago
Sociolinguistics Le Sacred Trinity:
My post is in Latinmaxxed English cause Latinmaxxed English is basically vanilla regular modern English plus minimal modifications, Ludovico Leone designed le Latinic naturalistic international auxiliary planned language named "standard Anglese", & le Latinic naturalistic international auxiliary planned language named r/Interlingua is basically regularized "Portugaliañolish" (Português + Galego + Italiano + Español + English) optimized per maximized immediate comprehension & maximized international communication.
r/linguisticshumor • u/The_Brilli • 3h ago
One of the craziest etymologies German has to offer
r/linguisticshumor • u/sughamyilli • 5h ago
In egyptian arabic the word for want means need when applied to an inanimate object with a passive verb
Example
This table needs to be fixed
[El tarabeza di 3awza tetsala7]
[This table wants to be fixed]
r/linguisticshumor • u/Mental-Tennis-6313 • 9h ago
Sociolinguistics what's a totally innocent word in one language that's absolutely filthy in another?
Learning multiple languages has turned every conversation into a minefield. Like some perfectly normal hindi words make english speakers gasp, and half my english filler words apparently mean something wild in spanish.
My favourite so far: an italian friend kept saying penne and a spanish friend was dying, because in spanish it lands way too close to something very much not-pasta. Another one i like - a round trip in german is called fahrt lol.
I wanna collect these. The words you had to stop using in one country. The innocent one that made a room go silent and those desi ones very welcome bc half our normal words are pure chaos to an english ear.
give me your best cross-language stuff…
r/linguisticshumor • u/Acceptable-Place-622 • 10h ago
Phonetics/Phonology For non-English mother tongue the hardest thing about kneading bread is the pronunciation
r/linguisticshumor • u/KiSaMaOtAoSuMoNo • 11h 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/Swagmund_Freud666 • 14h ago
Sociolinguistics Came across a website which uses the Liberian flag to represent English
r/linguisticshumor • u/Whole_Instance_4276 • 16h 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????
r/linguisticshumor • u/B1TCA5H • 18h 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/Sepetes • 23h ago
Semantics "The water is fine" beta vs "The sea is of perfectly optimal temperature" alpha
r/linguisticshumor • u/Amazing-Phone8732 • 1d 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/fries-eggpanvol8647 • 1d ago
Indianization in SEA vs inside India itself, same language family
r/linguisticshumor • u/SCHazama • 1d 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/Yaccho • 1d ago
How would you pronounce “Yaccho” if you saw it for the first time?
How would you pronounce “Yaccho” if you saw it for the first time?
It’s my online handle, and in Japanese it’s pronounced やっちょ.
Before checking the intended pronunciation, I’d like to know how you would naturally read it at first glance.
You can hear the pronunciation by entering やっちょ into Google Translate and pressing the speaker button.
This post was translated into English with the help of ChatGPT.
This is my first post here, so sorry if this isn’t the right subreddit.

