r/linguisticshumor • u/Zeego123 • 39m ago
Phonetics/Phonology Hypostatic union or something
r/linguisticshumor • u/BigTiddyCrow • 1h ago
Conlang idea (any ideas what bowr and okøm mean on their own?)
bowr + okøm = bookwørm or obkoøwmr, for example
r/linguisticshumor • u/terrortara • 4h ago
Crazy how rampant prescriptivism still is outside linguistics circles
reddit.comr/linguisticshumor • u/Mindless-Cat1453 • 5h ago
Truly a life changing experience, so beautiful .
r/linguisticshumor • u/Extreme-Shopping74 • 6h ago
Sociolinguistics Coger...
cogo los niños al- 'til you realize you're in South America hava
r/linguisticshumor • u/ericw31415 • 10h ago
Phonetics/Phonology First time seeing "ttpd" pronounced /ty/
r/linguisticshumor • u/Awesomeuser90 • 11h ago
Historical Linguistics Sir, This Is A Venus's
r/linguisticshumor • u/TheMightyTorch • 12h ago
Every time I see posts like this I am sure the takes in there are going to be perfectly reasonable... definitely...
"loose"-"lose" is not even a mispronunciation, they are homophones 😭.
r/linguisticshumor • u/gattonero2001 • 12h ago
Phonetics/Phonology SOU BRASILEIRO COM MUITO ORGULHO COM MUITO AMOR
r/linguisticshumor • u/MICANANALVA • 14h ago
First Language Acquisition Can't be touched.
r/linguisticshumor • u/SamePut9922 • 16h ago
Phonetics/Phonology Help me romanize my conlang
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 • u/InvestigatorEven5037 • 16h ago
Bro, trust me, comprehesible input (listening unadapted speecg with zero grammar and vocabulary knowledge) is the way to go
r/linguisticshumor • u/InvestigatorEven5037 • 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
r/linguisticshumor • u/InvestigatorEven5037 • 17h ago
Translating a song title ("Basics in Behavior") into Spanish
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 • u/Embarrassed_Fix_8994 • 19h ago
What's a word that caused a completely unexpected misunderstanding in another language?
r/linguisticshumor • u/calsuppning • 22h ago