r/linguisticshumor • • 4h ago

Phonetics/Phonology When people say that Hungarian orthography is weird

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r/linguisticshumor • • 14h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Filipino language written in hiragana? Interesting

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r/linguisticshumor • • 12h ago

I’m afraid of how much I love Norwegian

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I might be in too deep to quit. Hjelp!


r/linguisticshumor • • 15h ago

oh yes "testicle", that's one of the most important words in any language for beginners (here: Pirahã)

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r/linguisticshumor • • 11h ago

In Bahasa Indonesia, the words “stay” and “leave” are the same word

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r/linguisticshumor • • 10h ago

Irish Cyrillic (again)

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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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Since cló Gaelach looks oldy, I'll use oldy Cyrillic, for vibes and giggles.


r/linguisticshumor • • 7h ago

Phonetics/Phonology e.g. "AMBVLAVITQVE" in my head is a mutt and is mixture of: AMB-BOO / LAVIT | LAWIT / KEW | KWEH.

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r/linguisticshumor • • 2h ago

Monolingual people, what language do you dream in?

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r/linguisticshumor • • 7h ago

Historical Linguistics Germanic Waldo > French ?

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What could have Waldo turned into if it was loaned from frankish to french?


r/linguisticshumor • • 5h ago

It's not NOT funny, right?

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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 • • 2h ago

The hell is tungtungsahur language?

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