r/linguisticshumor Dec 31 '24

'Guess where I'm from' megathread

125 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

38 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 3h ago

I was told to post this here.

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172 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 6h ago

The full extent of literature and cinema in most Indigenous American, Khoisan, and Papuan languages

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171 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2h ago

Semantics I fucking love German modal particles

34 Upvotes

You just have a bunch of words that provide no content to the factual meaning of a sentence, but rather flavor it with subtle indications of the speaker's motivations, expectations etc. with the given context. And it's so fun to just spam them all in a row.

"Geh raus." ("Go out.")

"Geh doch raus." ("You could go out, you know.")

"Geh doch mal raus." ("Go out for once")

"Geh doch schon mal raus." ("How about you go out first, then [...]")

"Geh doch halt schon mal raus." ("Just go outside now. [Isn't this the obvious thing to do?])


r/linguisticshumor 14h ago

Phonetics/Phonology I measured my vowels in praat twice for "fun"

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216 Upvotes

In the second one i measured some other vowels before l, so al is "all", ɑl is "palm", and ol is "old". Also for ə i said "comma", and for ʊ i said "foot".


r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Etymology How to say yes in saudi arabia

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27 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 22h ago

Writing shenanigans

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719 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 5h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Why are some Korean consonants so tense?

27 Upvotes

IDK, but they really should relax sometimes


r/linguisticshumor 10h ago

Italian doesn’t need Z, just like JKWXY

72 Upvotes
Plosive Affricate
Before i, e Thi /ti/ Ti /tsi/
Elsewhere Ta /ta/ Tia /tsa/

r/linguisticshumor 19h ago

Morphology Finally something that does justice to the word ‘mutation’

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283 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

Historical Linguistics Bro is stuck in Republican era Latin

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61 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 8h ago

I feel like more people might appreciate this here.

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14 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Wanna speak like an Egyptian? send a message

4 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 22h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Hot take: purely for phonaesthetic reasons, all non-native speakers should pronounce GOOSE as cardinal [u] rather than try to imitate a native [ʉw]-type vowel

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107 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Phonetics/Phonology Is it only me that refuses to believe this is a coincidence?

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102 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Historical Linguistics new theory just dropped

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1.5k Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics: Rotate the letters for vowels!

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141 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Historical Linguistics Carians trying to adapt the Greek alphabet be like:

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133 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Jag är din far

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133 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Sociolinguistics We must protect the purity of French from the barbaric Gallicisms!

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854 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

alright, which one of you created wiktionary-chan?

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682 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

I'm this close to create new digrams

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146 Upvotes

Who could have guessed that trying to have more consistant spelling by frenchifying English loan words/introducing w in the spelling would lead me to have to choose between changing the word for "yes" VS having to accept "ouoquitoqui"?


r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Phonetics/Phonology Romanization of ん

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344 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Syntax Behold! A waste of time.

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45 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Etymology Indonesians whenever they are late.

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142 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Sociolinguistics FUN FACT: Portuguese, Castilian And Italian Speakers Can Comprehend Each Other But Prefer To Utilize English To Communicate With Romanians Because English Is Easier To Comprehend

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38 Upvotes

Speakers of r/Mirandese , r/Portuguese , r/Galego , Extremaduran, r/Asturlleones , r/Castellano , r/Ladino , r/Catalan , r/Italian , Tuscan, Corsican, r/Sicilianu , Neapolitan, r/Venetian and Talian can comprehend each other when they speak slowly with the more formal synonyms that are similar in their languages but prefer to utilize r/English to communicate with r/Romanian and r/French speakers.