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Linguistics Humor: a sub for humor relating to linguistics
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Welcome to /r/linguisticshumor! This is the home for jokes about linguistics, i.e., the study of human language.
Linguistics memes, funny textbook illustrations, crackpot theories, rude drawings made up of IPA symbols, and other linguological ludicrousness goes here. If you've got something that you'd like to share with the class that isn't scientifically rigorous enough for /r/linguistics, post it in this sub.
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German/ Spanish speakers, this is BS, right?
17:23 UTC
Noticed this this morning, what could have been with a little more ae raising
16:16 UTC
I've got compounds to create
14:19 UTC
All hail Dr Zamenhof
12:49 UTC
C'mon, gimme your best garden-path sentences
The best one I ever thought of, I think, was "the radio set the time", rather aping the famous, and my favourite, "the old man the boat". But I feel like that type of brevity makes for the best and most jarring garden-path sentence. What are your favourites?
11:11 UTC
I don't want to have to defend prescriptivism...
09:39 UTC
lol
06:36 UTC
What’s the grammatical gender of letters in your language?
Mine doesn’t have it because it’s not a gendered language.
01:01 UTC
How do you read clock in your language?
X = hour indicated by clock, Y= next hour after X, Z = minutes
In English it's very simple, just the first number that the second (so 4:34 us "four thirty four"), but might use "quarter after X" for X:15 and " quarter to Y: for X:45, and "X o'clock" for X:00, and that's really it
In Plautdietsch though, it's a little more complicated.
X:00 is "clock X"
X:01 to X:14 is "Z after X"
X:15 is "quarter after X"
X:16 to X:29 is "Z before half Y"
X:30 is "half Y"
X:31 to X:44 is "Z after half Y"
X45: is "quarter to Y"
X:46 to X:59 is "Z before Y"
So something like 8:27 would be "three before half nine"
20:57 UTC
title
19:36 UTC
The American-British spelling compromise
- -yze, -ize/ -yse, -ise -> -yesz, -iesz "colourieszd"
- -er/re -> -r "centr"
- -se/ce -> -sc "defensc"
- -our/or -> -uor "coluor"
17:21 UTC
what would these two phonemes be called? one is pronounced by whistling and the other is produced by whistling and using the larynx at the same time. (a voiced and unvoiced pair)
17:15 UTC
Every family has a black sheep!
17:14 UTC
"Six Best Chinese Transliterations of the Xiao Hong Shu Logo"
16:04 UTC
Hence why means you're too unintelligent to even value your opinion
14:32 UTC
pronunciation guide I found on a book
12:50 UTC
Bring back þ and ð
We have been unfairly robbed of the two best letters ever created. In their place, we use the pathetic, undifferentiated, characterless digraph th. The je ne sais quoi of Old English orthography is gone. Actually, that's a dumb statement, because je very fucking much sais quoi. Bring them back.
07:15 UTC
most normal example sentence
who wrote this 😭 🙏
00:46 UTC
Dreamed that Japan was going to remove kanji from all forms of media. There was a reason behind it. I can't remember what, though.
00:09 UTC
Falsos amigos
20:34 UTC
La vie -> Laivie -> Livie -> Live
19:52 UTC
And they say german is precise
19:21 UTC
I have interacted here though
18:54 UTC
Maybe its also Woughen
Yes, this was made in the apple notes app, don’t ask
18:14 UTC