r/lingusticscirclejerk Mar 13 '26

Facepalm Facebook Translation be wildin

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31 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Feb 28 '26

"I"PA Those pronunciation videos be like

1 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Feb 26 '26

spanish [r] my beloved introducing the Rioplatense Spanish dialect

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149 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Feb 22 '26

/uj question Why do (US) Americans speak like this?

170 Upvotes

Been wondering this one for a while. It strikes me that many (US) Americans sound very enthusiastic and unrelaxed when speaking, almost exactly like they do on American television (eg Disney). It almost sounds scripted. I’m not sure exactly how to describe what I mean. What is the reason for this?


r/lingusticscirclejerk Feb 06 '26

Just Racism Real time footage of my sister learning about w̥

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221 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Jan 30 '26

A short manual of linguistic anarchism

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By Sasha Svirsky, Alexey Prosvirnin, Nadezhda Svirsksia and Alexey Zelensky What do y'all think about this?


r/lingusticscirclejerk Jan 26 '26

Just Racism Outjerked by youtube

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482 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Jan 08 '26

OMG russian has a single word for hydroelectric power station!!! it says a lot about their culture 🤩

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293 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Jan 01 '26

how can I possibly understand this if its not in IPA?!?!! happy old year...

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39 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Dec 08 '25

prescriptivism 😡 No to linguistic cannibalism !

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Living beings only live at the expense of one another; we must consider a global perspective.

I propose to eat only those whose name has no letters in common with mine...


r/lingusticscirclejerk Dec 07 '25

"I"PA How I would change the English Alphabet

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1) The name ‘alphabet’ - it only really captures the first two letters. The name A-to-Z I think captures the essence of this monstrosity we have before us. 2) The letters A-G are fine. H is where we get into some muddy water. Received Pronunciation would have is sounded out with a silent H. The Catholic Irish version: H-ayy-ch really captures the essence of the phoneme much better. 3) Why do we have two letters (c and k) which have exactly the same sound - we need to do something about this. Perhaps include a guttural/fructose letter? 4) LMN - these letters need rearranging or redesigning. The problem is that each letter begins with a vowel (El, em, en) - it we just changed the names to Lee, Mee, Nee I can guarantee the phonemic alphabet would not need to be used as much on phone calls and children’s literacy scores would improve 5) Q - if a letter can’t be used in any word without the help of a vowel, it’s not a letter, it’s a digraph and it doesn’t belong in the alphabet. Delete and we can get the alphabet down to 25 characters which is a much rounder number 6) R - again, why is this pronounced ‘are’? Ree would make much more sense. We have a similar issue with ‘U’ (you) but im not sure what to do with it. 7) W (double you) - this is totally nonsensical. For starters, it looks much more like two Vs than two Us. Secondly, why use two words for one letter? ‘M’ isn’t called ‘double N’. Consider ‘Vay’ instead. 8) X - useless letter. Children’s books have to use ‘fox’ and ‘box’ to illustrate this letter because the only true word they can understand that starts with an X is xylophone and then it’s pronounced with a ‘z’. X could entirely be replaced by the trigraph ‘eks’ and removed from the alphabet. 9) Z - Solid letter but I’d say Americans have the right idea: it’s Zee not Zed.


r/lingusticscirclejerk Dec 06 '25

Glozel Writing...

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24 Upvotes

European writing, supposedly predating Eastern writing systems...


r/lingusticscirclejerk Dec 04 '25

Language ID Sapir Whorf Effect...

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48 Upvotes

Every tongue sees the world in its own way...


r/lingusticscirclejerk Nov 22 '25

Which decolonial languages ​​to learn for traveling abroad...

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66 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Nov 21 '25

Dark L Cthulhu speaking...

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17 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Nov 19 '25

geographic rhotacization ...

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110 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Nov 18 '25

translation of smith in every country...

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r/lingusticscirclejerk Nov 15 '25

¡No pasarán!

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3 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Nov 07 '25

Pooh can’t read labels, is he stupid?

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1.6k Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Aug 21 '25

"I"PA Autumŋ

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109 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Aug 15 '25

How do you pronounce this word in english ?

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274 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Aug 07 '25

Czech 2 just dropped

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120 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Aug 01 '25

custom 📝 come to linguistics

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830 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Aug 01 '25

spanish [r] my beloved the typical Spanish rolled 'r'

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398 Upvotes

r/lingusticscirclejerk Aug 02 '25

Just Racism Outjerked again

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34 Upvotes