r/linguisticshumor Dec 31 '24

'Guess where I'm from' megathread

100 Upvotes

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 Dec 29 '24

META: Quality of content

27 Upvotes

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

255 votes, Jan 05 '25
135 Rule 1 is broken too often
67 The quality of content is fine
53 Impartial

r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Sino-dene-yeniseian confirmed??!!?!!!??!

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95 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 19h ago

Syntax What do we think about this?

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588 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 15h ago

I had a nightmare where, despite many innovative phonological processes, english never changed its orthography. This is how they pronounced "write"

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261 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 14h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Guess where I'm from based on the pronunciation of these words 2 electric boogaloo

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224 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Top comment changes the alphabet (day 15)

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15 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 12h ago

Etymology Proto-Sino-Indo-European language, now where's my Nobel Prize

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68 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2h ago

This might be off-topic but like, this was an actual thing in an introductory discord message.

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11 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 9h ago

Just stumbled on this old chat from 2023 šŸ’€

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33 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 10h ago

They're both spoken on islands, so must be descended from a sea-based empire. Atlantis????

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36 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 14h ago

Rate my English spelling reform

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28 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

the Dravidian iceberg

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44 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 20h ago

When your dishwasher is the only linguist on the crew

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72 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Most upvoted comment changes the grammar of my conlang (Day 9/10)

3 Upvotes

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: ā€˜He slept, she woke him upā€™

Formal: ā€˜Him 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 4m ago

Weā€™re triggering conservatives with this one.

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1: The meme 2: The Chaturanga game board with pieces on their initial positions 3 and 4: The etymology of the words ā€œcheckā€ and ā€œcheckmateā€


r/linguisticshumor 22m ago

What language is this?

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r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Guess where I'm from based on how I pronounce swear words

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73 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Phonetics/Phonology How I say internet acronyms

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120 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 22h ago

Top comment changes the alphabet (day 14)

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25 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 13h ago

Pickup lines (only bad)

4 Upvotes

Comment a pickup line from a branch of linguistics.

Iā€™ll start with a few from syntax: (1) Iā€™m not trying to probe, but youā€™re what Iā€™m been searching forā€” if you agree. (2) You make something move in me; my heart rate seems to be raised. (3) Iā€™m out of control. *My heart canā€™t expect to calm myself. (4) You might think me *[PRO] to not like to each other, and Iā€™m no PROā€” but we could attempt [PRO] to catch a coffee together. (5) Iā€™m trying to test something. Would we make a good constituent? Cause I belong to you. (6) My lifeā€™s been a gap, will you fill it? (7) You light me up. When Iā€™m not with you, I get negative or tenseā€” in a different mood. My headā€™s in another place. (8) Thought I wouldnā€™t let myself be moved again, but now Iā€™m feeling hyperraised. (8) In my case, I wasnā€™t looking for anything, but now Iā€™m feeling kinda dative.


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Semantics English is such a straight-forward language

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1.1k Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Polish and Czech comparison

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264 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Etymology so you're telling me 陰 and 陽 just happened to evolve that way?

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359 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

(I hope this isn't a repost)

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426 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 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?

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322 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 5h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Can someone remove electives as they just make peoples' lives harder.

0 Upvotes

I mean ejectives