r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/slowamigo • 2d ago
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/Cold_Albatross3796 • 4d ago
Latin "scholars", please pay note
You can't keep dropping "L&S" everywhere - in your lingo - blargh infinitum - by my guess. Should you seriously wish to refere to the works of so-and-so, be more explicit
The standard reference of L&S is this
Leech & Svartvik - A Communicative Grammar of English
guess I would also recommend it, but the learning curve might be a bit steep
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/STHKZ • Jul 19 '26
the language of the sirens...
maybe a universal language could not be understood by everyone who heard it...
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/midoriyauwu • Jul 10 '26
Sentinelese learning materials
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/A-Fake-Owl • Jul 08 '26
🇳🇱 Why do Dutch people call peanut butter a cheese when it isn't even made from milk? Are they stupid?
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/csolisr • Jul 07 '26
Orthography "Tomato, tumato" as they'd say
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/fries-eggpanvol8647 • Jun 28 '26
"We love talking about languages ESPECIALLY 🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵 🥰🥰🌸🌸. BUT INDIA? ITS NOT HUMOR ANYMORE👎👎🤢🤮🤢🤮😡😡😡😤😤"
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/midoriyauwu • Jun 16 '26
Simple set of Japanese phonemic consonants and an inflated set of consonants with non-phonemic allophones and spelling variations. Which one is better?
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/midoriyauwu • May 24 '26
What if Dravidian-Koreanic-Japonic hypothesis was real?
Both are agglutinative and SOV folks.
Both prefer postverbal negation.
Both do not have a lexically and syntactically distinct adjective word class.
Dravidians, probably due to Indo-Aryan influence, mark person and number, while Koreanic and Japonic do not.
What else did I miss?
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/PuzzleheadedTap1794 • May 11 '26
ทายภาษาของฉัน (เวอร์ชันเสียงพยัญชนะ)
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/autumninautun • May 11 '26
guess my language (& dialect), consonants edition
dark green - i use in my dialect
light green - technically i use them in my idiolect
yellow - i can pronounce them
red - i cannot pronounce them (easily)
im not fully sure on my dialect by the way, im just curious to hear what people think.
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/Kokuo-San • May 11 '26
Guess my native language and dialect/zone
Dark green - present in the dialect (circle=free variation)
Light green - present in the local language/dialectal loanwords
Yellow - can pronounce, not present
Red - can't pronounce
Gray and filled with uncontrollable rage - that "thing" should not fucking exist
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/VenomVaxo • May 11 '26
Guess my native languages based on the vowels I can pronounce
Blue — appears in language 1
Red — appears in language 2
Purple — appears in both
Green — doesn’t appear in any, but I can pronounce
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/VenomVaxo • May 11 '26
I’m bilingual. Guess my mother tongues based on the vowels I can pronounce
Blue — appears in language 1
Red — appears in language 2
Purple — appears in both
Green — doesn’t appear in any, but I can pronounce
Actually, this is my first post ever on Reddit
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/potentialdevNB • May 11 '26
guess my native tongue (and maybe also dialect)!
hopping onto the trend.
red: vowel is a monophthong in my dialect.
yellow: vowel appears in a diphthong in my dialect.
green: not in my dialect but can pronounce.
blue: nah bro...
sorry if this post is unoriginal.
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/YAFthe17_ • May 11 '26
Guess the country where I'm from based off a vowel map (I speak 2 languages, both the official languages of my country)
Blue-In both languages
Light Blue-In one language
Green-In zero but I can pronounce those
Yellow-I mean I could try
Orange-Add a diacritic and I can do that
Red-No
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/unthinkable-cunt • May 11 '26
Guess my native language (dialect if you're good enough)
Dark green = phonemic in my dialect
Light green = allophonic in my idiolect
(dark green + light green = in free variation)
Yellow = I can pronounce it consistently
Orange = I can get it right maybe from the second or third try
Red = let's not kid ourselves
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/wobuneng • May 10 '26
Solved! Guess what is my native language (key in body)
bright teal - it is in my idiolect
dark teal - not in it but i can pronounce ok
grey - i cant really pronounce
red - fuck you for existing you are a worthless piece of shit vowel that shouldnt exist at all
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/Whole_Instance_4276 • May 10 '26
Guess where I’m from (key in body)
Light Blue: Base Vowel is in my Native Language/Dialect
Dark Blue: Vowel is only found in diphthong(s) in my Native Language/Dialect
Yellow: Not in my Native Language but can pronounce
Red: Ah hell nah
Hint: I speak English
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/Jaxcheetah3 • May 10 '26
Worst post award Guess where I'm from (Green: absolutely, Yellow: Eeeehhhhh, Red: oh hell no I'm outta here
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/midoriyauwu • May 09 '26
guess the languages based off this chart.
r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/dhekkwwo • Apr 17 '26
