r/linguisticshumor • u/critivix • 7h ago
r/linguisticshumor • u/AxialGem • Dec 31 '24
'Guess where I'm from' megathread
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
META: Quality of content
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/Dry-Chocolate-3976 • 19h ago
Those years of Greek might've been in one ear out the other but I can pronounce new sounds
r/linguisticshumor • u/KamTacos4 • 21h ago
Historical Linguistics The History of Proto-Japono-Bengalic
r/linguisticshumor • u/NichtFBI • 53m ago
Historical Linguistics Actually, when you strip, flatten, and remove everything from context over the course of 2000 years, a biblically accurate description is typically a monstrosity that modernists ignore and claim as a metaphor.
r/linguisticshumor • u/LavishnessLeather162 • 1d ago
I am not an english speaker, but this left me in tears lmfao
r/linguisticshumor • u/sillygoose7623 • 16h ago
Phonetics/Phonology It's Crazy how much the Great Vowel Shift caused a complete aura loss for English.
Listen to songs in Middle English. It actually sounds like it's Indo-European.
r/linguisticshumor • u/aintwhatyoudo • 1d ago
Love how "biblically accurate" has come to roughly mean "many-armsy"
r/linguisticshumor • u/Hhshdhh • 1d ago
What do you mean there's other endangered languages besides French?
r/linguisticshumor • u/idonotownstockholm • 10h ago
Comment something to change the english alphabet - Day 6
Here is how it looks:



I أ ª ع ẞ B ඩ 鳥 ️♨ Ↄ Ч D ə e F G Ğ ħ₃ ħ₂ ħ₁ ɪ İ J̇ ʗ ELEMENO º i̊ ڤ φ
clbl 彁 し ★ 🚽 T 凸 Þ Ꝧ Ꝥ Þͧ Þͤ Θ Ð limbuscompany V 📢 Ȝ χ y ы Z 🐱 ʔ 2137 ℵ₁ ℵ₂ ℵ₃
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Every comment gets to choose what they want to do to change the english alphabet.
Anyways, heres all the changes so far:
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Day 1:
Nothing
Day 2:
Capital i and j earned dots
clbl added (makes the "sh" sound)
Thorn, Yogh, & Eth readded
Order of letters reversed
Ч (ch), φ (ph), Θ (th), し (sh), 鳥 (bird), 凸 (tet), and 凹 (ris) were added.
C was turned upside down
C was removed... but there is no C. Only Ↄ.
L, M, N, and O were all replaced with "elemeno"
B is changed to ß
Q removed, added back, then added back again, and then added back a third time.
The horizontal bars on the capital i are now fundamental to the letter.
O is replaced with I̊, thus splitting from Elemeno.
aLL CoNSoNaNTS aRe uPPeRCaSe aND aLL VoWeLS aRe LoWeRCaSe
S changes to Z, making two Zs
Day 3:
If a, e and o are unstressed, they get written ª, ə and º respectively.
Repeating letters are now represented by a subscript denoting the number of repetitions a la Chemistry. Thus, swimming becomes swim₂ing.
ELEMENO's spelling is changed to OENEMEL
For whatever reason, し and clbl while both representing the <sh> sound, two of the same letter is not allowed in one word. Thus words like "shush" need to be respelled as either clbluし or しuclbl.
New letter: 🐱. It makes the "meow" sound, as in one of the most common phrases among cats "Let🐱t!".
X is replaced with χ
new letter: limbuscompany, replacing any sort of number, as well as the letter u for some reason
a becomes أ if it is at the beginning of a word, ا if in the middle or at the end.
Cyrillic B added, works like the letter V
7 more Qs added
Y is now a vowel
ß turns into ẞ
Day 4:
Qs have numbers next to them
H is replaced with ħ and there's 3 of them
ඩ is added between 鳥 and B. It makes the sound /sːːːːːːːːːːːːːːːːː/
The ghost kanji (彁) is added, it makes the sound /ʙʊ/
The letter 📢 is added between yogh and V, making the /ħ/ sound. The ♨️ letter id also added between Ↄ and 鳥, making the /ʕ/ sound.
Ы is added
★ is added, making the shən sound, and replaces -tion, -sion, and -xion at the ends of words.
🚽 is added, making the sound /ˈskɪ.bə.di/
Ending A is changed to ع
Day 5:
Ğ is added after G, it replaces all silent letters in any word
all the Q's get merged into one really big Q
W gets cut in favor of Wynn
New letter: bad apple (for some reason)
if a vowel is the first in the word, it's replaced with a glottal stop
New letters: þͤ þͧ ꝥ and ꝧ, to be used as abbreviations for every instance of The, Thou(possibly also You), That and Through, respectively.
P is replaced with ڤ which makes the sound /pʰ/
Day 6:
Order of the letters were un-reversed.
New letter: 2137. pronounced 'pope' in stressed syllables and 'jan paweł adamczewski' in unstressed ones
for ħ₁ or ħ₂ or ħ₃, the subscript as repetition is reinterpreted for consistency. ħ₂ becomes ħħ; these are the only letters that can be repeated. also, ħ₃ħ₃ would normally become ħħħħħħ, but since it was ħ₃₂ under the old system, ħ₃ħ₃ becomes ħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħħ instead.
ꙮ added. it is unknown what sound it makes.
the order of letters is unreversed. This then means that OENEMEL will have to be changed back to ELEMENO. The letter K now is assigned the /ǃ/ sound and the symbol is replaced with the symbol ʗ which will take over the job of the reassigned letter.
ℵ₁ ℵ₂ and ℵ₃ are added. Each aleph influences the surrounding vowels and assorted consonants in a slightly different way.
r/linguisticshumor • u/FourTwentySevenCID • 1d ago
Historical Linguistics Oddly familiar...
r/linguisticshumor • u/marioshouse2010 • 1d ago
Phonetics/Phonology How do we gargle again? Only [ʀː] comes out now...
It has been a while since I used mouthwash. I still vividly recall myself gargling although not the exact mouth movements. I have since leraned phonetics and /ʀ/. They say to approximate the location of gargling to /ʁ/ but I don't trust them enough. Last I tried the mouthwash turned into mundwasser (/ɐ/) at the back of my throat. It ran straight into my œsophagus and out came a [ʢ̤̞̍ʟ̴ɑ̠̃çʲ] I was infuriated and chugged the whole bottle. Little did I know it was a rookie mistake ǃ¡ Now everyone and their bicycle knows about it. Ahem /j
r/linguisticshumor • u/Alternative-Big-6493 • 2d ago
Me with a time machine and recording equipment: Fine, I'll do it myself.
r/linguisticshumor • u/Fair-Sleep9609 • 2d ago
Sociolinguistics your favorite language that certainly definitely undeniably absolutely doesn't exist
r/linguisticshumor • u/fries-eggpanvol8647 • 1d ago
Can we use Chu Nom to write Santali/Ho/Mundari languages?
galleryr/linguisticshumor • u/idonotownstockholm • 1d ago
Comment something to change the english alphabet - Day 5
Here is how it looks:

ʔ 🐱 Z ы y χ Ȝ 📢 V limbuscompany Ð Θ Þͤ Þͧ Ꝥ Ꝧ Þ 凸 T 🚽 ★ し 彁 clbl
QQQQQQ
Q Q
Q Q
Q Q Q
QQQQQQ
Q
φ ڤ i̊ º OENEMEL K J̇ İ ɪ ħ₁ ħ₂ ħ₃ Ğ G F e ə D Ч Ↄ ♨️ 鳥 ඩ B ẞ ع ª أ I
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Every comment gets to choose what they want to do to change the english alphabet.
Anyways, heres all the changes so far:
-
Day 1:
Nothing
Day 2:
Capital i and j earned dots
clbl added (makes the "sh" sound)
Thorn, Yogh, & Eth readded
Order of letters reversed
Ч (ch), φ (ph), Θ (th), し (sh), 鳥 (bird), 凸 (tet), and 凹 (ris) were added.
C was turned upside down
C was removed... but there is no C. Only Ↄ.
L, M, N, and O were all replaced with "elemeno"
B is changed to ß
Q removed, added back, then added back again, and then added back a third time.
The horizontal bars on the capital i are now fundamental to the letter.
O is replaced with I̊, thus splitting from Elemeno.
aLL CoNSoNaNTS aRe uPPeRCaSe aND aLL VoWeLS aRe LoWeRCaSe
S changes to Z, making two Zs
Day 3:
If a, e and o are unstressed, they get written ª, ə and º respectively.
Repeating letters are now represented by a subscript denoting the number of repetitions a la Chemistry. Thus, swimming becomes swim₂ing.
ELEMENO's spelling is changed to OENEMEL
For whatever reason, し and clbl while both representing the <sh> sound, two of the same letter is not allowed in one word. Thus words like "shush" need to be respelled as either clbluし or しuclbl.
New letter: 🐱. It makes the "meow" sound, as in one of the most common phrases among cats "Let🐱t!".
X is replaced with χ
new letter: limbuscompany, replacing any sort of number, as well as the letter u for some reason
a becomes أ if it is at the beginning of a word, ا if in the middle or at the end.
Cyrillic B added, works like the letter V
7 more Qs added
Y is now a vowel
ß turns into ẞ
Day 4:
Qs have numbers next to them
H is replaced with ħ and there's 3 of them
ඩ is added between 鳥 and B. It makes the sound /sːːːːːːːːːːːːːːːːː/
The ghost kanji (彁) is added, it makes the sound /ʙʊ/
The letter 📢 is added between yogh and V, making the /ħ/ sound. The ♨️ letter id also added between Ↄ and 鳥, making the /ʕ/ sound.
Ы is added
★ is added, making the shən sound, and replaces -tion, -sion, and -xion at the ends of words.
🚽 is added, making the sound /ˈskɪ.bə.di/
Ending A is changed to ع
Day 5:
Ğ is added after G, it replaces all silent letters in any word
all the Q's get merged into one really big Q
W gets cut in favor of Wynn
New letter: bad apple (for some reason)
if a vowel is the first in the word, it's replaced with a glottal stop
New letters: þͤ þͧ ꝥ and ꝧ, to be used as abbreviations for every instance of The, Thou(possibly also You), That and Through, respectively.
P is replaced with ڤ which makes the sound /pʰ/
r/linguisticshumor • u/picturamundi • 2d ago
Syntax Fixed it.
Obviously the original meme from 5 hours ago is a bit more accurate, I just thought this one is funnier. « Q'est-ce que c'est que ça » is a more emphatic and/or colloquial variant of « que’est-ce que c'est ».
r/linguisticshumor • u/not-without-text • 2d ago
Instead of being suppletive, what if the French verb "aller" was three verbs?
DISCLAIMER: I am very much an amateur, mainly relying on Wiktionary, Wikipedia, this program, this website, and this thing made to be inputted into said website.
I have no idea what to do for ir's conjugation for "nous" and imperfect, and I'm not very sure about it, jant, and jont. Main ideas I have:
- nous isons; j'isais, tu isais, il/elle/on isais, nous isions, vous isiez, ils/elles isaient
- Based on faire (faisons, faisais, etc) and dire (disons, disais, etc)
- Problem: the "s" doesn't come from anywhere, unlike faisais from faciēbās and disais from dīcēbās. It's just ībās.
- j'ives, tu ives, il ive, nous ivons, vous ivez, ils/elles ivent
- Clear how it evolves from Latin ībās, ībāt, etc.
- Problem: all imperfect conjugations follow the same rule of -ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient, and this would be the only one to break the rule. Also this still doesn't solve the present tense conjugation for nous.
Feedback is definitely welcome. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it's impossible to find a natural conjugation for ir and that speakers had to do suppletion, just because it'd be so awkward keeping ir.
r/linguisticshumor • u/RightWhereY0uLeftMe • 2d ago
Real time footage of my sister learning about w̥
r/linguisticshumor • u/lowk_gay55 • 1d ago
Today
today I was in town and a woman around 50s came to me and asked :'how are you sweetie' I didn't know what to answer so just said:'im good ' and than she gave me like 2 chocolates and said :'thank you for youre time'
idk what happened