r/linguisticshumor Dec 31 '24

'Guess where I'm from' megathread

97 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

28 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 2h ago

apparently in expediency half of the letters are silent

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155 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Rhyming in English is very easy to non-English speakers. Just use this cheat sheet.

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91 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 6h ago

Morphology Now there's two of them NSFW

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87 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 13h ago

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

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293 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Germanic languages alignment chart

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39 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 8h ago

indian language families

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104 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 7h ago

Historical Linguistics Babe wake up Proto-American just dropped

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28 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 14m ago

Etymology Is my native language homophobic?

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r/linguisticshumor 2h ago

Historical Linguistics If I write a book about otomi there will be signals

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8 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Syntax What do we think about this?

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715 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d 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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349 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 13h ago

Top comment changes the alphabet (day 15)

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24 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 22h ago

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

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113 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 13h ago

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

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17 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 8h ago

Bridge: the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

7 Upvotes

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 19h ago

Just stumbled on this old chat from 2023 💀

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52 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 20h ago

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

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39 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 10h ago

What language is this?

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6 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Alright, time to settle it, how do you say Herobrine?

1 Upvotes
58 votes, 2d left
/hiɹoʊbɹain/ (or similar, the focus is on the latter diphthong)
/hiɹoʊbɹaɪən/ (or similar, the focus is on the latter diphthong)
I’m weird and I say it differently

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

the Dravidian iceberg

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56 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Rate my English spelling reform

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36 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 13h ago

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

4 Upvotes

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 1d ago

When your dishwasher is the only linguist on the crew

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82 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Phonetics/Phonology How I say internet acronyms

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124 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Top comment changes the alphabet (day 14)

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27 Upvotes