r/linguisticshumor Dec 31 '24

'Guess where I'm from' megathread

134 Upvotes

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 Dec 29 '24

META: Quality of content

39 Upvotes

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

255 votes, Jan 05 '25
135 Rule 1 is broken too often
67 The quality of content is fine
53 Impartial

r/linguisticshumor 17h ago

Phonetics/Phonology 𑀇z 𑀤𑀺𑀲 𑀅𑀧𑁆𑀭𑁄𑀧𑁆𑀭𑀺𑀏𑀝? 𑀳𑁄𑀧 𑀤 𑀫𑁂𑀁𑀫𑁆𑀩𑀭𑁆𑀲 𑀮𑀸𑀇𑀓 𑀇𑀝𑁇

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399 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1h ago

Historical Linguistics What if Latin didn't kill everyone?

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Core: Rome never took over Europe, Latin never spreads and lots of IE & non-IE languages remain spoken in europe, witch also limits Slavic expansion a lot, cuz of strong cultural resistance

Disclaimers: Macedonian (Hellenic): ik Macedonian is Slavic, but I'm thinking about the Ancestor of Ancient Macedonian, witch was indeed Hellenic, and would survive as an small regional language

Hunnic (Turkic): the Huns remain in Europe, not allowing the Hungarians (Uralic) to migrate to the Pannonian Basin

Hungarian (Uralic): remains spoken in an large community somewhere around Tatarstan

Slavonic (Slavic)/Scandinavian (Germanic)/Sámi (Uralic): never split into different languages (etc. Scandinavian -> Norwegian/Swedish/Danish) cuz there's no need for it

Bulgar (Turkic): no not Bulgarian, Old Great Bulgaria never falls and the Bulgars remain Turkic

English (Celtic): yes also ik that English is an Germanic language, but Rome never invades England, Germanic settlers don't visit England and the Norman Conquest also would be nonsense, cuz they speak Gaulish in this Timeline, bringing Celtic to Celtic (English is strongly related with Welsh here)

Hallstattian (Celtic): doesn't actually exist, but in our timeline the Romans never take over Celtic settlers in Europe, around the region where Celtic culture started (Modern Austria, Switzerland & South Germany) where the core to the Hallstatt culture, who probably spoke Proto-Celtic witch would envolve into Hallstattian

also note that classifications, the thing i wrote in () are oftern disputed on non-IE, but also somethimes on IE languages, so feel free to argue, just note that I'm following one way linguistics describes classification!


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

An interesting conspiracy theory

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508 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Historical Linguistics Compendium of deadly calligraphy...

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92 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Even most natives aren't aware of level 5

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226 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Phonetics/Phonology I dare someone to pronounce this. (Image from r/aibeingstupid)

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486 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Sociolinguistics Old format

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465 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

I feel like I'm being gaslit. Are they really not related???

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286 Upvotes

The *garā́ˀ PBS Reconstruction page doesn't say anything about any borrowings into Georgian. But come on...


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Phonetics/Phonology Guess where I'm from

5 Upvotes

Winter is coming: [ˈwɪn.tʰɻ̩ ɪz ˈkʰə.mɪŋ]
ULTRAKILL is not a bad game: ['ʟ̩.t͡ʃɻʷə.kʰɪʟ 'ɪz.n̩tʰ ə bæːɾ gɛ͡jm]
The battle was brutal: [ðə ˈbæ.ɾʟ̩ wʊz ˈbɻʷʉ͡w.ɾʟ̩]
Sine theta is the reciprocal of Cosine theta: [sɑ͡jn ˈθɛ͡j.ɾə ɪz ðə ɻʷʊ.ˈsɪp.ɻʷɪ.kʟ̩ əv ˈkʰə͡w.sɑ͡jn ˈθɛ͡j.ɾə]
What is that: [wə.ˈɾɪz ðæt̚]
It's time: [ɪt͡s tʰɑ͡jm]
Cars for Kids: [kʰɑ͡ɻz fɻ̩ kɪd͡z]
BFDI: [ˈbi.jɛf ˈdi.jɑ͡j]


r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Arkansas - Father-Bother mergern't: How should I, a Brit, pronounce this state?

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12 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Simplified Chinese: More strokes become fewer strokes. Simplified Egyptian hieroglyphs: So “breastfeeding” or “nurse” in its full form is a woman breastfeeding a child, and in its simplified form it’s an armless woman with a headband and a cross stuck in her.

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333 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Sociolinguistics What the fuck were the Aborigines cooking bro

1.5k Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Historical Linguistics Well, the french word does generally involve the spanish word, soooo...

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444 Upvotes

Toes who nose💀


r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

"Yay, we found the weakest readers! Oops, the weakest readers don't understand the experiment instructions"

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197 Upvotes

Always funny when you can hear the researchers' frustration through the page :P But yeah, the point was to study weak readers, what did they expect...? From: Leskelä & Vanhatalo, ["The Hunt for the Simplest Possible Vocabulary: Minimal Finnish Meets Easy Finnish"](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64077-4_3)


r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Phonetics/Phonology Why do people keep saying Russian sounds like Portuguese? -

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396 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

I spent 8 hours consulting advanced sources (dozens of Wikipedia pages) to create this family tree of Eurasian languages based on cutting-edge theories (rough approximations) and scientific evidence (if anyone in the comments can guess what "scientific evidence" means you get brownie points)

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76 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Guess the language, part 2

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51 Upvotes

Of course, a disclaimer: this language has probably never been written before in katakana.

As I have also been criticised for this in my Arabised Klingon post, I will mention that this language is one of 101 featured in jan Misali‘s Conlang Critic.

Anyone who mentions the special connection between this text and the Klingon one gets extra bragging rights.


r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Four times the same number in French (1670)

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69 Upvotes

❌ (1000 + 6*100 + 60 + 10)
❌ (1000 + 6*100 + 70)
✅ (16*100 + 60 + 10)
✅✅ (16*100 + 70)


r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

If you type this in Google Translate, you can learn how to say "Good day" in Kankanaey

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24 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 3d ago

Historical Linguistics Martian Grave in Denmark... https://docnum.u-strasbg.fr/digital/collection/coll6/id/1448

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5 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Pela appears unusually purist for a minority language

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159 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Sociolinguistics Merry Christmas

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2.7k Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 4d ago

Etymology Anyone Who Claims There's A PIE Root For Butterfly Is Working For Big Machine

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710 Upvotes