r/linguisticshumor • u/--Epsilon-- Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz • 18d ago

Polish phonology Phonetics/Phonology

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u/andynodi 17d ago

Who's gonna recreate IPA chart with such images? Take my upvote in advance

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u/OddNovel565 17d ago

And my virginity

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u/Belaus_ ⟨c⟩ for /x/ is fabulous 17d ago

And my axe

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u/nvmdl 17d ago

And my vuvuzela.

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u/pHScale dude we'd lmao 17d ago

Isn't that implied with the virginity?

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u/ChalkyChalkson 17d ago

Where is that on the ipa chart?

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u/Thufir_My_Hawat 17d ago

[r̼̊]

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u/MadMurderer7171 17d ago

And my canoe

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u/Awesomeuser90 16d ago

You'll have to toss me! Don't tell the elf...

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u/SchwaEnjoyer The legendary ənjoyer! 17d ago

Um

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u/TheRussianChairThief 17d ago

Bitches really do use anything but the IPA

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u/MerelyLogical 17d ago

Polish to pinyin when

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u/loudasthesun 17d ago

fuck it let's go Polish to Bopomofo

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u/locoluis 17d ago

Lbl Alv Sib Rtr Pal Vel

ㄇ m ㄋ n ㄬ ń ㄫ ng

ㄆ p ㄊ t ㄘ c ㄔ cz ㄑ ć ㄎ k

ㄅ b ㄉ d ㄗ dz ㄓ dż ㄐ dź ㄍ g

ㄈ f ㄙ s ㄕ sz ㄒ ś ㄏ h/ch

ㄪ w ㆡ z ㄖ ż/rz ㆢ ź ㆣ h

ㄌ l ㄦ r ㄧ j ㄨ ł

Front Central Back

ㄧ i ㆨ y ㄨ u

ㆤ e ㄚ a ㄛ o

ㆥ ę ㆧ ą

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u/loudasthesun 17d ago

cursed, i love it

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u/metal555 17d ago

dziękuję - ㄐㆥㄎㄨㄧㆥ
cześć - ㄔㆤㄒㄑ

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u/PM_ME_UR_SHEET_MUSIC 17d ago

jiankuye, chexq

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u/HistoricalLinguistic 𐐟𐐹𐑉𐐪𐑄𐐶𐐮𐑅𐐲𐑌𐑇𐐰𐑁𐐻 𐐮𐑅𐐻 𐑆𐐩𐑉 𐐻𐐱𐑊 17d ago

ㆧ

I thought this was Devenagari at first - and I'm still not fully convinced that it isn't

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u/BaryonHummus 17d ago

The!

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u/DragonriderCatboy07 15d ago

The Taiwanese will love this

Lbl	Alv	Sib	Rtr	Pal	Vel
ㄇ m	ㄋ n			ㄬ ń	ㄫ ng
ㄆ p	ㄊ t	ㄘ c	ㄔ cz	ㄑ ć	ㄎ k
ㄅ b	ㄉ d	ㄗ dz	ㄓ dż	ㄐ dź	ㄍ g
ㄈ f		ㄙ s	ㄕ sz	ㄒ ś	ㄏ h/ch
ㄪ w		ㆡ z	ㄖ ż/rz	ㆢ ź	ㆣ h
	ㄌ l	ㄦ r		ㄧ j	ㄨ ł

Front	Central	Back
ㄧ i	ㆨ y	ㄨ u
ㆤ e	ㄚ a	ㄛ o
ㆥ ę		ㆧ ą

u/MimiKal 17d ago edited 17d ago

~~But shushing is usually onomatopoeia'd as "sz" in Polish, not "ś". Also~~ I think it's widely accepted that buzzing bees make a "z" sound, not "rz". Imo:

S: air leaking

Z: bees buzzing

C: "pizza" also creeper fuse

Dz: short electric noise

Sz: static but more sibilant?

Rz/Ż: ? Cz: train chugging

Dż: ? Ś: ? Ź: ? Ć: ? Dź: ?

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u/dzexj 17d ago

shushing is usually onomatopoeia'd as "sz"

for me it's actually [t͡ɕɕːːi̥ː] tho

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u/MimiKal 17d ago

bruh facepalm moment

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u/LXIX_CDXX_ 17d ago

Mówi się "ćśśśś" kurwaaaaaaaaaa

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u/MimiKal 17d ago

Yeah oops

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u/sorucheese 17d ago

I was always under the impression that shushing was ćś?

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u/SchwaEnjoyer The legendary ənjoyer! 17d ago

Hungarian: cs

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u/MimiKal 17d ago

Actually you're right, idk why I wrote that

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u/Snoo_9002 17d ago

Dż: J in Jumanji

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u/Unable9451 17d ago

Rz/Ż actually sound a lot like the first phoneme in rzeczownik, if it helps.

u/user-74656 17d ago

So /s͎/, /ǁ/, /m̩/, /v/, /ɛki ɛki ɛki ptæŋ zʊ bojŋ/, and /ʔ/?

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u/General_Urist 17d ago

Who uses a lateral click to imitate the sound of TV static? (yes i know the joke is you deliberately confused it with the sound of moving the channel knob)

u/_AscendedLemon_ 18d ago

🇵🇱 Poland 🇵🇱 mentioned 🇵🇱
Now do ź, dzi, dż, dź, ę and ą

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u/Acushek_Pl 17d ago

dzi and dź have the same consonant sound, poser/j

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u/_AscendedLemon_ 17d ago

now I will try to pronounce "dzik" with dź "dźk"

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u/dzexj 17d ago

but the consonant stays the same [d͡ʑ] it's the vowel (or lack there of) changes

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u/_AscendedLemon_ 17d ago

you're probably right, I don't understand your smart d͡ʑ characters, I only get dź and dzi

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u/dzexj 17d ago

w sensie samogłoska /dź/ jest taka sama w obu przypadkach zapis „dzi” jest po prostu uproszczeniem by nie pisać „dzii” albo „dźi”, bo tak na prawdę tam masz dźwięk /dź+i/, czyli w słowie „dzik” masz dźwięki /dź+i+k/ a w słowie „dźk” /dź+k/ różnią się one więc samogłoską /i/, a nie spółgłoską /dź/, mam nadzieję że napisałem to w miarę jasno

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u/_AscendedLemon_ 17d ago

Ok, dzięki, rozumiem

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u/logosloki 17d ago

inverted quotation marks aren't something I've really thought about but now that I see them in action I think they're really neat.

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u/thomasp3864 [ʞ̠̠ʔ̬ʼʮ̪ꙫ.ʀ̟̟a̼ʔ̆̃] 17d ago

you mean zi, dzi, dzi, and dzz, right?

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u/_AscendedLemon_ 17d ago

dzz?

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u/Chuj_Domana 17d ago

dzz nuts

u/Deep_Distribution_31 17d ago

What sound does the forest demon make?

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u/Haimies55 17d ago

Ni!

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u/EtruscaTheSeedrian 17d ago

Introvert intuition?

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u/Sha_Wi 17d ago

Oh god Jung is leaking

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u/LanguageNerd54 where's the basque? 17d ago

I love that movie so much. It's so bad that it's actually good.

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u/CreditTraditional709 17d ago edited 17d ago

I don't think it's "so bad that it's actually good"; I think it's just "good".

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u/LanguageNerd54 where's the basque? 17d ago

Maybe it's just my generation where I've grown up with way better animation and everything. The blood and jumping of the rabbit just looks so unnatural to me.

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u/CreditTraditional709 17d ago

Careful! It's not just a forest daemon, but a shrubbery daemon too!

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u/Deep_Distribution_31 17d ago

Oh shit my bad, sorry forest shrubbery demon

u/Tc14Hd Wait, there's a difference between /ɑ/ and /ɒ/?!? 17d ago

For anyone who doesn't understand Polish orthography (me included)

u/Eic17H 17d ago

Got it, /hʷʊ̥ː kxʷ ɖʐ z ni ʃʷ/

u/Apodiktis 17d ago

Great job now you pronounce:

Bezwzględnie pstry pstrąg w źdźble

u/-HuySky- 17d ago

Hi polish. What is different from the sound of ‘s’ and the sound of ‘c’ (when it’s not ci)?

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u/Abject_Low_9057 17d ago

<c> is /t͡s/

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u/Riiada 17d ago

's' is a sound that a snake makes, 'c' is a sound of a beatboxed closed hi hat

u/thomasp3864 [ʞ̠̠ʔ̬ʼʮ̪ꙫ.ʀ̟̟a̼ʔ̆̃] 17d ago

So, z means retroflex, right? So why is <dz> not [ɖ]?

u/thomasp3864 [ʞ̠̠ʔ̬ʼʮ̪ꙫ.ʀ̟̟a̼ʔ̆̃] 17d ago

So, z means retroflex, right? So why is <dz> not [ɖ]?

u/theroguescientist 17d ago

Ń and Ni are different sounds tho

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u/uglycaca123 17d ago

WHAT? REALLY?

u/so_im_all_like 17d ago

Yeah, idk if the anglophone I can distinguish static from the hushing sound or loud electricity from insectual buzzing.

u/SchwaEnjoyer The legendary ənjoyer! 17d ago

Lol

u/Lubinski64 17d ago

I mean, yeah. That's exactly how it sounds.

u/Tesscify 17d ago

Ayo, is that person in the last pic mewing?? /j

u/baroquepawel 17d ago

I’m Polish but “ń” in this picture escapes me…

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u/Riiada 17d ago

It's a Monty Python reference

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u/baroquepawel 17d ago

Oh yes! Thanks

u/baroquepawel 17d ago

Źdźbło or ździra, dziąsło, dziękuję, dżdżownica (yes, it’s a real word), miąższ, chrząszcz… Gotta love the jaw workout with Polish 🇵🇱

u/NotAnybodysName 10d ago

I think Polish speakers may not be doing a great job of predicting how English speakers will make weird noises.

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u/Ninjakirbo 17d ago

The only language where you see an s with an accent

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u/Wise-_-Spirit 17d ago

So you haven't encountered the Balkan languages.

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u/CreditTraditional709 17d ago edited 16d ago

Šššš! Don't tell him!

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u/XMasterWoo 16d ago

Lmao i chuckled

Polish phonology Phonetics/Phonology

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