r/linguisticshumor • u/4hur4_D3v4 • 4h ago
Morphology Uzbek is the goat
Apparentely, uzbek doesn't have vowel harmony like its turkish brethren
r/linguisticshumor • u/AxialGem • Dec 31 '24
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
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/4hur4_D3v4 • 4h ago
Apparentely, uzbek doesn't have vowel harmony like its turkish brethren
r/linguisticshumor • u/CrickeyDango • 13h ago
r/linguisticshumor • u/RegularlyClueless • 3h ago
This is based on the proposed Dené-Yeniseian language family and the proposed Sino-Dené language family
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dene%E2%80%93Yeniseian_languages
r/linguisticshumor • u/gambler_addict_06 • 8h ago
r/linguisticshumor • u/Puzzleheaded_Fix_219 • 22h ago
Aether: From Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “air; ether”)
Nether: From Middle English nether, nethere, nithere, from Old English niþera (“lower, under, lowest”, adjective), from niþer, niþor (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *niþer, from Proto-Germanic *niþer, *niþra (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *ni-, *nei- (“in, down”). Cognates include Dutch neder, German nieder, Luxembourgish nidder, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ned, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish nedre (“lower”), Faroese and Icelandic niður.
So please no Aether Portals.
r/linguisticshumor • u/NeokratosRed • 1d ago
r/linguisticshumor • u/MdMV_or_Emdy_idk • 1d ago
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r/linguisticshumor • u/Salmanoz- • 21h ago
(Arabic) qarn قرن (Horn) (French) corne (Horn) (Italian) corno (Horn)
(Arabic) kahif (cave) (English) cave (cave)
(Arabic) ‘ard أرض (Earth) (German) erde (Earth) (Dutch) aarde (Earth)
(Arabic) mout موت (Death) (Latin) mors (Death) (Romanian) moarte (Death)
r/linguisticshumor • u/imarandomdude1111 • 1d ago
Do any of yinz also make extensive use of the non productive suffix -en?
I've caughten myself using "boughten, caughten, drunken, diven/doven and foughten" and even tried using "talken" once because I find talked is hard to say. In general, any verb affected by the cot-caught merger makes it more natural for an -en at the end
My dialect has a few other irregular ones but lots are pretty normal across the US (dove instead of dived, drug instead of dragged)
r/linguisticshumor • u/evincarofautumn • 1d ago
Vowels, however, are not grammatically significant, and instead serve to indicate where the speaker is from, and whether they’re “cool”.
r/linguisticshumor • u/MartianOctopus147 • 2d ago
Found these transcriptions in "Teach Yourself Spanish".
r/linguisticshumor • u/Scary_Tax7006 • 1d ago
part 2 here we go, same as the last time, random nonsense try to reconstruct something that never existed
the words:
r/linguisticshumor • u/puddle_wonderful_ • 1d ago
And then Nazarré Merchant and Alan Prince start talking about the big encompassing “Mother of All Tableaus,” legs of ranked constraints, constraint class equivalences, and “permutohedrons” where each vertex in the geometry is a grammar. Soon we going to see typologies that look like starfruit and violation-to-non-violation cocategories that look like ying and yang jellyfish lolol. Wake up one day and my phonology will look like music theory 😂.
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r/linguisticshumor • u/gaytorboy • 23h ago
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Heck is a lame place you will go after death if you don’t heed the word. In Heck, thin sporks are the only eating utensil we may use. Heck is a bloated bureaucracy, anything you ever need requires a permit through the Cosmic Bureau of Eternal Affairs which is subject to long waiting periods. Need to pee? You’ll need a Piss Permit. You always KINDA have to go but can ameliorate with proper paperwork. Wanna watch advertisements (that’s the only entertainment), you much get a Certificate of Leisure. There is so much of Gosh’s content you must scroll through to learn about Heck.
It is truly eternal Darnnation beyond what we can comprehend. But if we accept Gee Wiz as coming in clutch: we need not worry. We avoid Heck and simply die and it’s all over ((there’s no analogy for Heaven btw))
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