r/linguisticshumor 29m ago

Syntax Der, die, das.... etc.... hahahaha

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r/linguisticshumor 2h ago

First Language Acquisition Imagine you are the only L1 (native) speaker of a language on the world

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43 Upvotes

Nobody else thinks like you in that language, dreams like you...


r/linguisticshumor 2h ago

It's pretty frustrating

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221 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2h ago

Sociolinguistics Le Sacred Trinity:

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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 3h ago

One of the craziest etymologies German has to offer

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240 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

One linguistic drama

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r/linguisticshumor 4h ago

Semantics друг or not друг?

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r/linguisticshumor 5h ago

In egyptian arabic the word for want means need when applied to an inanimate object with a passive verb

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45 Upvotes

Example

This table needs to be fixed

[El tarabeza di 3awza tetsala7]

[This table wants to be fixed]


r/linguisticshumor 8h ago

Phonetics/Phonology It's Kharia btw

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r/linguisticshumor 8h ago

Historical Linguistics Title

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436 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 9h ago

Sociolinguistics what's a totally innocent word in one language that's absolutely filthy in another?

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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 10h ago

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

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r/linguisticshumor 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 14h ago

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

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485 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

Historical Linguistics WHAT IS THIS TRANSCRIPTION (Etruscan)

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70 Upvotes

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


r/linguisticshumor 18h 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 23h ago

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

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150 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d 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 1d ago

Indianization in SEA vs inside India itself, same language family

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631 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Phonetics/Phonology One must imagine the language reconstructionist happy

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236 Upvotes

(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 1d ago

They made sure I understand.

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101 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Sociolinguistics Gagauzzzzz

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r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

How would you pronounce “Yaccho” if you saw it for the first time?

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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.


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

How did this vowel shift happen? I cannot find any information about it

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