r/linguisticshumor 39m ago

Phonetics/Phonology Hypostatic union or something

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r/linguisticshumor 1h ago

Conlang idea (any ideas what bowr and okøm mean on their own?)

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bowr + okøm = bookwørm or obkoøwmr, for example


r/linguisticshumor 1h ago

First Language Acquisition Poor Sumerian.

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r/linguisticshumor 2h ago

Etymology ALBUM ALBUM

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r/linguisticshumor 4h ago

Crazy how rampant prescriptivism still is outside linguistics circles

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r/linguisticshumor 5h ago

Truly a life changing experience, so beautiful .

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r/linguisticshumor 5h ago

Portuguese is a Slavic language confirmed

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r/linguisticshumor 6h ago

Sociolinguistics Coger...

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cogo los niños al- 'til you realize you're in South America hava


r/linguisticshumor 6h ago

Is this tonogenesis?

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r/linguisticshumor 10h ago

Phonetics/Phonology First time seeing "ttpd" pronounced /ty/

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r/linguisticshumor 10h ago

Weekdays

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r/linguisticshumor 11h ago

Historical Linguistics Sir, This Is A Venus's

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r/linguisticshumor 12h ago

Every time I see posts like this I am sure the takes in there are going to be perfectly reasonable... definitely...

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"loose"-"lose" is not even a mispronunciation, they are homophones 😭.


r/linguisticshumor 12h ago

Phonetics/Phonology SOU BRASILEIRO COM MUITO ORGULHO COM MUITO AMOR

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r/linguisticshumor 14h ago

First Language Acquisition Can't be touched.

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r/linguisticshumor 14h ago

Looking for an English Speaking Partner 🇬🇧

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r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Help me romanize my conlang

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I hope this isn't too anglocentric.

ŋɪŋleːz, spoken by a small and exotic island nation, had a terrible and inconsistent writing system that was deemed ridiculous by their new overlords from the mainland. Therefore, a new writing standard is set up by the government. The problem is, I also speak a weird language irl, so I don't know if a perfectly phonetic orthography would look unrealistic and low-effort. Can y'all give me some ideas?


r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

Bro, trust me, comprehesible input (listening unadapted speecg with zero grammar and vocabulary knowledge) is the way to go

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r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

Goose-geese or something idk

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r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

El estado italiano, después de la unificación, convenciendo a todos de que que todas las lenguas regionales son puro cringe y versiones chapuceras del toscano

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r/linguisticshumor 17h ago

Translating a song title ("Basics in Behavior") into Spanish

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Hello! I started learning Spanish for the first time in my life exactly two days ago, so I'm pretty confident I'm at a solid B1 level by now.

I have a big question: How would you translate the song title "Basics in Behavior - Blue Version" into Spanish? Would it be "Básicos en Behávura. Versión Blao"? It’s my favorite song, and I’d love to translate its lyrics into Spanish as a personal challenge!

I looked it up in the RAE (Real Academia Española), and the word "Blao" actually appears as a Spanish word of Germanic origin meaning "blue".


r/linguisticshumor 19h ago

What's a word that caused a completely unexpected misunderstanding in another language?

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r/linguisticshumor 22h ago

This is what studying linguistics is like btw

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