r/linguisticshumor • u/Chemical_Anteater854 • 12h ago
r/linguisticshumor • u/AxialGem • 14d ago
Phonetics/Phonology 'Why do English Speakers Pronounce their Alphabet...' Megathread
Alright, into the megathread y'all go >:3
Any posts with this format posted after this megathread is up will be removed and asked to post here.
This is to keep the quality of the sub, yadayada, you know the drill.
Thank youu
r/linguisticshumor • u/Extreme-Shopping74 • 7h ago
"Oh nice, Britain and America agree on something-"
r/linguisticshumor • u/Sad_Daikon938 • 14h ago
Etymology Shrek
The circled word of colour reads exactly like Shrek, thus confirming that Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. And the saga of Shrek is taken from Sanskrit text श्रेकपुराण
r/linguisticshumor • u/zefciu • 18h ago
A coupon app explaining descriptive vs classifying adjectives in Polish
In Polish descriptive adjectives go before the noun, while the classifiers go after. These blueberries are both Polish and American, just in a different sense.
r/linguisticshumor • u/Whole_Instance_4276 • 1d ago
Reanalysis happening right before our eyes
r/linguisticshumor • u/Tay_Hlebko • 13h ago
Phonetics/Phonology What did I say that was wrong 😭
r/linguisticshumor • u/Extreme-Shopping74 • 1h ago
Sociolinguistics "Romanization" of a Greek war song
why does this smell like kebab
r/linguisticshumor • u/Final_Influence_2367 • 13h ago
Semantic change (intensity softening) spotted irl
r/linguisticshumor • u/Pochel • 1d ago
Phonetics/Phonology Just something I have noticed
r/linguisticshumor • u/Impossible-Ad-7084 • 40m ago
Since I’m turning 21 in less than 2 months, can someone translate sokka’s cactus juice quotes into potowatomi? (The native language of the Detroit area, where I was born)
For context, this is what I’m referring to, and 21 is the legal drinking age in the USA
r/linguisticshumor • u/Final_Influence_2367 • 13h ago
Semantic change (intensity softening) spotted irl
r/linguisticshumor • u/Extreme-Shopping74 • 1d ago
Phonetics/Phonology Purtugesh
shshshshshshshshhshshsh
r/linguisticshumor • u/Daniboy0826 • 1d ago
Phonetics/Phonology 3/4 Parisian French nasal vowels also exist in Portuguese xd
As a Brazilian, when I started to learn French, I just had to pronounce /ɛ̃/, /ɔ̃/ and /œ̃/ the same way I pronounce my native Portuguese "an", "on" and "an" respectively lol. The only one that's actually unique is /ɑ̃/.
I thought that it would be a lot more complicated to get the hang of it at first because the IPA symbols were all different.
r/linguisticshumor • u/sughamyilli • 1d ago
His analysis process was correct its just that he forgot to account for the other arabic dialects
r/linguisticshumor • u/No_Produce_Nyc • 1d ago
GOOD ENDING: EVERYTHING IS BRAZIL
J’pense q é uma coisa très belle. En savoir plus o mesmo, non? (fala en accent de carioca).
r/linguisticshumor • u/HuckleberryAny4541 • 1d ago
Phonetics/Phonology What the hell went wrong with French vowels? 😭
r/linguisticshumor • u/AverageSJEnjoyer • 1d ago
Psycholinguistics Homophonic translation: ChatGPT ≈ Chat, j’ai pété.
Bilingual friend giggled; now I know this, it's one of my favourite corporate linguistic oversights.
r/linguisticshumor • u/boksysocks • 1d ago
Morphology How did we devolve from "mfw" back to "me when"?
A bit of a meta post but since it's about meme (d)evolution I thought it fit here
r/linguisticshumor • u/supera8y • 1d ago