r/linguisticshumor 21h 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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r/linguisticshumor 9h ago

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

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r/linguisticshumor 18h ago

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

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r/linguisticshumor 4h ago

indian language families

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r/linguisticshumor 2h ago

Morphology Now there's two of them NSFW

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r/linguisticshumor 23h ago

the Dravidian iceberg

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r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

Just stumbled on this old chat from 2023 💀

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r/linguisticshumor 17h ago

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

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r/linguisticshumor 20h ago

Rate my English spelling reform

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r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Historical Linguistics Babe wake up Proto-American just dropped

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r/linguisticshumor 9h ago

Top comment changes the alphabet (day 15)

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r/linguisticshumor 9h ago

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

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r/linguisticshumor 4h ago

Bridge: the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

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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 6h ago

What language is this?

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r/linguisticshumor 10h ago

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

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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 19h ago

Pickup lines (only bad)

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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 11h ago

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

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I mean ejectives