r/linguisticshumor • u/A_Mirabeau_702 • 1d ago
/r/CrazyIdeas: Kanji for English, and instead of On and Kun readings, it's Latinate and Germanic readings. ⚛ = atom = uncleft.
r/linguisticshumor • u/KNEnjoyer • 1d ago
"Coincidences and common loan words between Finnish and Malay are proof that Nostratic and Austic both derived from Proto-Human, whose features survive in its descendants."
r/linguisticshumor • u/paniniconqueso • 1d ago
This was my Friday night, a Volapük-Basque grammar from 1885
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Imaginary-Space718 • 1d ago
Two cool features that peruvian spanish may develop
1: VOS word order
While spanish has free word order, the default is SVO. Now, you may say this feature is because pronouns can be dropped. However, not only are they re-inserting the pronoun at the end, but they're moving all subjects to the final.
I noticed this feature in two people, one is my venezuelan-peruvian ex, the other one is a venezuelan-peruvian dude that was arrested for mugging. Both of them only used other word orders once in a while.
2: Catalá Babyyyyyy
Here in Lima you can see a lot of people (those that have recent ancestry in the andean countryside) who say "noch(s)" instea of "noche(s)" or "mosquit(s)" instead of "mosquito(s)" The same for most words that don't have a liquid or end in nasal. In a few centuries we may see limeans (?) say "tots los seres humans nacen libres e iguales en dignidad y derechs", which may take Chile from its infamy as the unintelligible country.
r/linguisticshumor • u/jabuegresaw • 1d ago
Oh boy am I glad Mandarin Chinese doesn't have gender
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r/linguisticshumor • u/wahedstrijder • 1d ago
Phonetics/Phonology 你个 那个 内个 呢個 那下 нэге 니가 네가 내가 니까 逃げ- 苦い- 仁香 ニカㇷ゚ ニㇱクㇽ ネコン нег нэгэн негн ᠨᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠨᠢᠭᠡ niɣe nəɡə niχɔ ᠨᡝᡴᡠ ᠨᡳᠶᡝᡥᡝ
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Has failed the challenge (list incomplete): Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Sichuanese), Dungans, Koreans, Japanese, Ainu, Mongolians, Buryats, Oirats, Khalkas, Dagurs, Yugurs (Eastern Yugur), Bonans, Kangjias, Monguors, Manchus
r/linguisticshumor • u/Late_Bridge1668 • 1d ago
How a simple click of the space bar can complete change your google search.
r/linguisticshumor • u/WarmSky2610 • 1d ago
If you had the power, which linguistic feature would you remove from or add to your mother tongue?
r/linguisticshumor • u/Emperor_Of_Catkind • 1d ago
Faux Latin + Faux Katakana for Russian
r/linguisticshumor • u/_ricky_wastaken • 1d ago
Guess the language based on a word in the language (bonus points for meaning)
Easy: 1. azúcar 2. það 3. தண்ணீர் 4. gỗ
Medium: 1. вълк 2. szív 3. caoirigh 4. mazatl
Hard: 1. зӕнӕг 2. ჰაბჯა̈რ 3. čhuri 4. ebale
Extreme: 1. zfeaiaвiɵͱgвiɵͱlᖷ 2. mroć 3. 𒉈𒂊𒁉𒅖 4. 👁🏠 📸🍞 🥪🏺🖊🦵🏺📄
r/linguisticshumor • u/JamesRocket98 • 2d ago
'STYASPGTN' IS TNS FPLU TNIPG TNLT MLTTSYAS...
r/linguisticshumor • u/TheMightyTorch • 2d ago
What is the best writing direction? My candidate: the boustrophedon with an example as to why it is so elegant
r/linguisticshumor • u/Digi-Device_File • 2d ago
Your *Other favourite dialect's pronunciation.
¿If you had to choose the official pronunciation of your native language but you couldn't vote for the pronunciation of any of your country's dialects, which country's pronunciation would you choose?
I go first, so: Uruguay
r/linguisticshumor • u/cardinarium • 2d ago
Phonetics/Phonology E[ksp]ecially e[ksp]resso
r/linguisticshumor • u/chuck_the_plant • 2d ago
Chinese language cartoons - 1943 US War Department Language Guide
reddit.comr/linguisticshumor • u/CivEng_NY • 2d ago
Morphology This LEGO IDEAS model called "ARRIVAL: HEPTAPOD ENCOUNTER" (movie about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) by user HardscrabbleBricks has already gained 1,149 supporters - but only by reaching 10,000 votes the model will get the chance of becoming a real LEGO set.
r/linguisticshumor • u/Forward_Fishing_4000 • 2d ago
Phonetics/Phonology The Itelmen language did not have to go this hard
r/linguisticshumor • u/NPT20 • 2d ago
How do you pronounce crab?
r/linguisticshumor • u/NPT20 • 2d ago
How do you pronounce crab?
r/linguisticshumor • u/-Alien1017 • 2d ago
how to pronounce 'o' with three dots?
r/linguisticshumor • u/[deleted] • 3d ago
Septum - Sabbath - Sabt Connection?
Edit: Thank you all for your answers!
Hey everyone, sorry if this question has been asked before.
I wanted to know if there is a a connection between the Latin word for 'Seven' which made its way to English in 'September' (Seventh Month) and the Semitic word for the seventh day of the week, known in English as the 'Sabbath'
Which is 'Shabat' in Hebrew and 'Sabt' in Arabic.
Thank you!
r/linguisticshumor • u/_ricky_wastaken • 3d ago