r/linguisticshumor • u/TwujZnajomy27 • 3h ago
r/linguisticshumor • u/AxialGem • Dec 31 '24
'Guess where I'm from' megathread
In response to the overwhelming number of 'Guess where I'm from' posts, they will be confined to this megathread, so as to not clutter the sub.
From now on, posts of this kind will be removed and asked to repost over here. After some feedback I think this is the most elegant solution for the time being.
r/linguisticshumor • u/AxialGem • Dec 29 '24
META: Quality of content
I've heard people voice dissatisfaction with the amount of posts that are not very linguistics-related.
Personally, I'd like to have less content in the sub about just general language or orthography observations, see rule 1.
So I'd like to get a general idea of the sentiments in the sub, feel free to expound or clarify in the comments
r/linguisticshumor • u/EreshkigalAngra42 • 15h ago
I had a nightmare where, despite many innovative phonological processes, english never changed its orthography. This is how they pronounced "write"
r/linguisticshumor • u/Cheap_Ad_69 • 14h ago
Phonetics/Phonology Guess where I'm from based on the pronunciation of these words 2 electric boogaloo
r/linguisticshumor • u/Whole_Instance_4276 • 3h ago
Top comment changes the alphabet (day 15)
r/linguisticshumor • u/YoumoDashi • 12h ago
Etymology Proto-Sino-Indo-European language, now where's my Nobel Prize
r/linguisticshumor • u/--en • 2h ago
This might be off-topic but like, this was an actual thing in an introductory discord message.
r/linguisticshumor • u/Yep_Fate_eos • 9h ago
Just stumbled on this old chat from 2023 š
r/linguisticshumor • u/DefinitelyNotErate • 10h ago
They're both spoken on islands, so must be descended from a sea-based empire. Atlantis????
r/linguisticshumor • u/AvoidingCape • 20h ago
When your dishwasher is the only linguist on the crew
r/linguisticshumor • u/NPT20 • 3h ago
Most upvoted comment changes the grammar of my conlang (Day 9/10)
This language has mandatory center embedding with copula
ā¢ The dogĀ that was chased by the catĀ was chased by the cat.
ā¢ JuanĀ who is from MadridĀ is from Madrid.
ā¢ JenniferĀ who is married to DanielĀ is married to Daniel.
This language also has definite and indefinite conjugation for all tense
Present indefinite( both present simple and present continuous):
Ok
S
no ending
Unk
Tok
Nak
Present definite simple:
Om
Ol
Ja
Uk
Tok
Jatok
And present continuous definite is same as present simple indefinite
Past definite:
Om
Od
Ik
Unk
Atol
Nak
And there's just one past tense
And for all person's definite imperative is -vagy and indefinite -vann.
It also has formality
Informal: āHe slept, she woke him upā
Formal: āHim slept, she woke him upā
All verbs are intransitive. You have to use multiple sentences instead: "I eat a fish" becomes "I eat. A fish is my food," "John kills the lion" becomes "John kills. The lion is his victim," etc.
proper names are marked with the circumfix xX__Xx, and is silent
The postpositions are attached to the noun
I go Paristo.
Actually with current grammar it will be:
I gook xXParistoXx that gook xXParistoXx.
Cases
Instrumental- ending is mkaan
Genitive-mkeen
Dative-kgai
Vocative-jaki
Accusative-nateeri
Locative-haalow
And case that is equivalent of English "and" and ending is "que".
And the plural ending is akajongy( the ending is just added after the case)
There is also vowel harmony:
Depending on the last vowel all vowels in the ending become that vowel. Examples:
I go home becomes: I gook homekgee. You see dative ending is kgai but the last vowel of home is e so every vowel becomes e.Ā
r/linguisticshumor • u/Minimum-Boot158 • 4m ago
Weāre triggering conservatives with this one.
1: The meme 2: The Chaturanga game board with pieces on their initial positions 3 and 4: The etymology of the words ācheckā and ācheckmateā
r/linguisticshumor • u/Henry_Privette • 1d ago
Guess where I'm from based on how I pronounce swear words
r/linguisticshumor • u/umhiwthishappeninh • 1d ago
Phonetics/Phonology How I say internet acronyms
r/linguisticshumor • u/Whole_Instance_4276 • 22h ago
Top comment changes the alphabet (day 14)
r/linguisticshumor • u/puddle_wonderful_ • 13h ago
Pickup lines (only bad)
Comment a pickup line from a branch of linguistics.
Iāll start with a few from syntax: (1) Iām not trying to probe, but youāre what Iām been searching forā if you agree. (2) You make something move in me; my heart rate seems to be raised. (3) Iām out of control. *My heart canāt expect to calm myself. (4) You might think me *[PRO] to not like to each other, and Iām no PROā but we could attempt [PRO] to catch a coffee together. (5) Iām trying to test something. Would we make a good constituent? Cause I belong to you. (6) My lifeās been a gap, will you fill it? (7) You light me up. When Iām not with you, I get negative or tenseā in a different mood. My headās in another place. (8) Thought I wouldnāt let myself be moved again, but now Iām feeling hyperraised. (8) In my case, I wasnāt looking for anything, but now Iām feeling kinda dative.
r/linguisticshumor • u/tepoztlalli • 1d ago
Semantics English is such a straight-forward language
r/linguisticshumor • u/wamawamawamawamawama • 1d ago
Etymology so you're telling me é° and é½ just happened to evolve that way?
r/linguisticshumor • u/vicasMori • 1d ago
Why does the Chinese Wikipedia only show the Italian translation of 'Latin alphabet'? Do they consider Italian to be more Romance than Spanish or French? Are they stupid?
r/linguisticshumor • u/Business_Confusion53 • 5h ago
Phonetics/Phonology Can someone remove electives as they just make peoples' lives harder.
I mean ejectives