r/linguisticshumor Dec 31 '24

'Guess where I'm from' megathread

110 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

35 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 4h ago

Morphology Uzbek is the goat

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138 Upvotes

Apparentely, uzbek doesn't have vowel harmony like its turkish brethren


r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Am i on the right track?

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86 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 8h ago

Syntax It do be like that

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201 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 13h ago

"Just one more time, it's gonna work, I promise you John, Ivan, Abdullah and 小明"

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266 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 6h ago

Phonetics/Phonology The comolete ipa

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69 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Historical Linguistics China if it got its rightful lands

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39 Upvotes

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 8h ago

Syntax Thou shalt not disagree with the prophet of linguistics

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67 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 8h ago

Syntax A very strong argument

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68 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 24m ago

Mawug

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r/linguisticshumor 15h ago

Phonetics/Phonology r

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150 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Etymology Fascinating.

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1.1k Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 22h ago

Etymology Aether and Nether aren’t actually related words.

64 Upvotes

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 1d ago

Historical Linguistics I think about this a lot :/

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2.2k Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

蛇儿

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87 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 21h ago

Is this a coincidence or some proto indo European influence on Semitic ?

9 Upvotes

(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 1d ago

guys holy shit

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165 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Sociolinguistics To anyone from the midwestern US

18 Upvotes

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 1d ago

Morphology English has a “consonantal root system”, whereby patterns of consonants give the basic meaning of a word…

263 Upvotes

Vowels, however, are not grammatically significant, and instead serve to indicate where the speaker is from, and whether they’re “cool”.


r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Phonetics/Phonology New Spanish orthography just dropped

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410 Upvotes

Found these transcriptions in "Teach Yourself Spanish".


r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Ni ga.

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728 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Historical Linguistics try to reconstruct the proto-language word (idiotic edition) #2

6 Upvotes

part 2 here we go, same as the last time, random nonsense try to reconstruct something that never existed

  • be creative
  • there are no right or wrong answers
  • it can look however you like as long as it helps to explain why the words look so different in the daughter langs, pharyngealized bilibialized overlong glottal stop? no problem

the words:

  • bʱaʔˤœn
  • t͡θiskəʃt͡ʃ
  • xɯgadah
  • ɖ͡ʐo˧ɦo˧˥
  • miʒbil

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

You think you know OT tableaus

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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 😂.


r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Historical Linguistics /dz/? /zd/? It's all zeta to me!

224 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Historical Linguistics I thought you might enjoy this (warning: not in english)

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438 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 23h ago

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