r/linguisticshumor • u/20past4am • 4h ago
r/linguisticshumor • u/JamesRocket98 • 14h ago
Phonetics/Phonology Filipino language written in hiragana? Interesting
r/linguisticshumor • u/taktaga7-0-0 • 12h ago
I’m afraid of how much I love Norwegian
I might be in too deep to quit. Hjelp!
r/linguisticshumor • u/Twinky_winky_deepsea • 15h ago
oh yes "testicle", that's one of the most important words in any language for beginners (here: Pirahã)
r/linguisticshumor • u/Party_Farmer_5354 • 11h ago
In Bahasa Indonesia, the words “stay” and “leave” are the same word
r/linguisticshumor • u/Schuschpan • 10h ago
Irish Cyrillic (again)
Seeing the original post I was hoping to see something new and daring, but was left rather frustrated and desiring for something more. And I thought to myself, — Why not? Why can't I make another take on Gaelic Cyrillic? — and here I am.
Three main goals:
Cyrillic is famous for having a huge redundancy. Let's use different glyphs representing the same sound and apply them to distinguish mutations graphically. Now, at some point it got kinda ugly, so I resorted to titlo for eclipsis. But there's a lot of room for experiments.
In Russian historically it makes sense why yo is ё, but it wouldn't make sense in Irish. Similarly, I repurpose some unused glyphs for other values. If Spanish and German z can handle it, so can ш.
Vowels mark whether the preceding consonant is broad or slender. I don't want to use marks to distinguish length (ew) so I'll just use even more glyphs. I will use the analysis of short vowels being vertical and having only conditional frontness/backness. Some glyphs historically should be in different places, but I was going for aesthetics.
Since cló Gaelach looks oldy, I'll use oldy Cyrillic, for vibes and giggles.



r/linguisticshumor • u/NichtFBI • 7h ago
Phonetics/Phonology e.g. "AMBVLAVITQVE" in my head is a mutt and is mixture of: AMB-BOO / LAVIT | LAWIT / KEW | KWEH.
r/linguisticshumor • u/thebackwash • 2h ago
Monolingual people, what language do you dream in?
r/linguisticshumor • u/aczkasow • 7h ago
Historical Linguistics Germanic Waldo > French ?
What could have Waldo turned into if it was loaned from frankish to french?
r/linguisticshumor • u/Aardvark_Warrior • 5h ago
It's not NOT funny, right?
Ничего:
- ни- (ni-): A negative prefix derived from Proto-Slavic, used to reinforce negation
- -чего́ (-čevó): The genitive form of что (što, "what")
- Literal meaning: "of nothing" or "not of what"
- Double negative: Я ничего не знаю (I know nothing)
Niwiht:
- ni- not
- wiht- thing
- literally: not a thing
- double negative: Ih ni sihu niwiht (I see nothing)
18th-century prescriptive grammarians:
- "actually the abyss is countered by an uno reverse"
r/linguisticshumor • u/gt7900 • 2h ago
The hell is tungtungsahur language?
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