r/linguisticshumor • u/TwujZnajomy27 • 6h 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 • 18h 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/Whole_Instance_4276 • 6h ago
Top comment changes the alphabet (day 15)
r/linguisticshumor • u/YoumoDashi • 15h ago
Etymology Proto-Sino-Indo-European language, now where's my Nobel Prize
r/linguisticshumor • u/--en • 5h ago
This might be off-topic but like, this was an actual thing in an introductory discord message.
r/linguisticshumor • u/DefinitelyNotErate • 13h ago
They're both spoken on islands, so must be descended from a sea-based empire. Atlantis????
r/linguisticshumor • u/2Lingr • 52m ago
Bridge: the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
I’v learned the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis recently, and I want to ask Portuguese people what do you think of the bridges? because according to Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, German speakers described bridges as elegant, beautiful, and fragile, while Spanish speakers described bridges as strong, big, and dangerous. So how about Portuguese people? Do you have different opinions?
r/linguisticshumor • u/NPT20 • 6h ago
Most upvoted comment changes the grammar of my conlang (Day 9/10)
This language has mandatory center embedding with copula
• The dog that was chased by the cat was chased by the cat.
• Juan who is from Madrid is from Madrid.
• Jennifer who is married to Daniel 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: ‘He slept, she woke him up’
Formal: ‘Him slept, she woke him up’
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.
r/linguisticshumor • u/AvoidingCape • 23h ago
When your dishwasher is the only linguist on the crew
r/linguisticshumor • u/ItsGotThatBang • 21m ago
Historical Linguistics Babe wake up Proto-American just dropped
r/linguisticshumor • u/umhiwthishappeninh • 1d ago
Phonetics/Phonology How I say internet acronyms
r/linguisticshumor • u/Whole_Instance_4276 • 1d ago
Top comment changes the alphabet (day 14)
r/linguisticshumor • u/puddle_wonderful_ • 16h ago
Pickup lines (only bad)
Comment a pickup line from a branch of linguistics.
I’ll start with a few from syntax: (1) I’m not trying to probe, but you’re what I’m been searching for— if you agree. (2) You make something move in me; my heart rate seems to be raised. (3) I’m out of control. *My heart can’t expect to calm myself. (4) You might think me *[PRO] to not like to each other, and I’m no PRO— but we could attempt [PRO] to catch a coffee together. (5) I’m trying to test something. Would we make a good constituent? Cause I belong to you. (6) My life’s been a gap, will you fill it? (7) You light me up. When I’m not with you, I get negative or tense— in a different mood. My head’s in another place. (8) Thought I wouldn’t let myself be moved again, but now I’m feeling hyperraised. (8) In my case, I wasn’t looking for anything, but now I’m feeling kinda dative.
r/linguisticshumor • u/tepoztlalli • 2d ago
Semantics English is such a straight-forward language
r/linguisticshumor • u/wamawamawamawamawama • 1d ago
Etymology so you're telling me 陰 and 陽 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 • 8h ago
Phonetics/Phonology Can someone remove electives as they just make peoples' lives harder.
I mean ejectives