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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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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
I predicted the Google Translate updates!
New languages
- Abkhaz
- Acehnese
- Avar
- Bashkir
- Breton
- Cantonese
- Chechen
- Chuvash
- Cornish
- Faroese
- Fulani (not ADLaM)
- Inuktut
- Manx
- Newari
- Northern Sámi
- Occitan
- Santali
- Sicilian
- Tamazight
- Tok Pisin
I also thought every Serbo-Croatian dialect, along with Shavian and this conlang, but those would never be in a translator (Shidinn has its own)
Romanization
- Bashkir
- Bhojpuri
- Cantonese (standard Jyutping)
- Chuvash
- Dogri
- Hebrew
- Inuktut (separate)
- Konkani
- Maithili
- Newari
- Oriya
- Pashto
- Persian
- Sanskrit
- Santali (separate)
- Tigrinya
- Urdu
ALL of them! At the time, I forgot Aymara was written in Latin.
23:14 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
How do you call a rimjob in your language/s?
In portuguese, it's called "beijo grego"(literally greek kiss), cause the practice of kissing someone's anus originated in Greece apparently. Since then, the name is still used to this day in portuguese.
In english though, the name rimjob comes from rim + job(duh), with the word rim, according to Wiktionary, meaning:
- An edge around something, especially when circular.
- (automotive, cycling) A wheelrim.
- (journalism) A semicircular copydesk.
It probably got its name because an anus looks like a rim(more specifically a wheelrim).
16:35 UTC
What’s the plural of Samus?
e.g., Zero Suit Samus and Metal Samus are the two most badass _______ in Brawl
16:17 UTC
Cultural appropriation of wallah and voilà at the same time
Ignorant Americans have found a way to offend two language communities at the same time. They borrowed Arabic
ولله
walla and French voilà with the same pronunciation. Double affront.
14:30 UTC
Capital letters: Vowel chart
12:51 UTC
Enjoy this meme that randomly popped into my head. I LOVE ALBANIAN ORTHOGRAPHY
12:08 UTC
🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
11:46 UTC
土好ᕗᒻ人話ᑦ
土 = nuna
土好ᖅ = nunatsiaq
土好ᕗᑦ = nunatsiavut
土好ᕗᒻ人ᖅ = nunatsiavummiuq
土好ᕗᒻ人ᑦ = nunatsiavummiut
土好ᕗᒻ人話ᑦ = nunatsiavummiutut
09:43 UTC
Is this funnier than the og
Help me settle an argument
03:47 UTC
Capitalized IPA
03:43 UTC
This is a wug
23:14 UTC
i propose karo
22:49 UTC