Even worse linguistics: Cartoon artists taking the wrong side during the Oakland Ebonics Controversy1yr ⋅ sharifmuezik ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Taken from one of my university Journalism textbook; not only is this exclusionary, but it’s also downright incorrect2yr ⋅ Doctor-Grimm ⋅ r/badlinguistics
It is IMPOSSIBLE to learn Swedish because of ONE sound which NO non-native Swedish person can actually say.4yr ⋅ Pregnantcannibal ⋅ r/badlinguistics
I came across this post of an argument about pronouns in r/traa and knew it belonged here as well.4yr ⋅ jzillacon ⋅ r/badlinguistics
There is no such language as 'Gaelic'...[it] is a term to define a language group. It encompasses Breton, Basque, Galician, Cornish, Irish, Welsh, Scottish...Scots Gaelic is a non-existent language.2yr ⋅ Ultach ⋅ r/badlinguistics
three different comments, from three different people, all commenting on the same tiktok...4yr ⋅ niccdifiore ⋅ r/badlinguistics
I suspect it is significant that English, the language of history's most curiosity-driven people, is the only one that has had such a minimalist word for why4yr ⋅ sapphic-kitten ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Found in an Ancient Languages Facebook group - guy was talking about Villon (1400s French poet) and included a lot of “I’m a genius” type of stuff, but this was the most flat-out nonsensical.2yr ⋅ Hananun ⋅ r/badlinguistics
to find certain [detrimental] deformations of the language in the U.S even by people whose level of education are higher than that of most3yr ⋅ FujinR4iJin ⋅ r/badlinguistics
White supremacist film studio has some real hot takes about why certain writing systems have more letters than others2yr ⋅ Many-Bees ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Albanian nationalist hilariously claims Sumerian and the Anatolian languages are descended from Albanian.2yr ⋅ Roblox838 ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Was looking up some info on Canadian raising, ended up on some backwoods early 2000's forum with this gem.3yr ⋅ savushkin_redux ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Obviously we just haven't been doing enough chemistry to understand written language...3yr ⋅ MeanderingMonotreme ⋅ r/badlinguistics
English is a complete and perfect code that can display all the information in the world without losing a thing in translation, because it happens to have one-less-than-a-multiple-of-nine letters in its alphabet and we happen to use base 10.4yr ⋅ edderiofer ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Remember kids, Egyptian priests used a different language than the common folk1yr ⋅ OpsikionThemed ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Spanish was spoken in Portugal until they stole Portuguese from Brazilian natives5yr ⋅ megm26 ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Apparently, English is the only language in the world that evolves or uses loan words.4yr ⋅ ripcitybitch ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Latin based languages don't have proper grammar and are primitive compared to english because they use metaphor sometimes. And I don't speak Spanish is No habla espanol and litteraly means No have Spanish.4yr ⋅ Vaultentity ⋅ r/badlinguistics
A poster for my school's Armenian Club claiming that the Armenian Alphabet is one of the most advanced in the world.5yr ⋅ NinjaTurkey_ ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Changes in spelling and style are simultaneously a sign of stupidity and an act of rebellion.4yr ⋅ nuephelkystikon ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Chinese grammar is simpler than Japanese and Korean's because of Western influence4yr ⋅ DirtyPou ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Because people in Africa speak it, English was the first language to ever exist5yr ⋅ QuantumLand ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Words with velar sounds are the funniest because Americans' sense of humor comes from Yiddish, a 'guttural' language.4yr ⋅ upallday_allen ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Arabic has 80x as many words as other languages! (OP asking if this is real, original image source unknown)4yr ⋅ Meeser ⋅ r/badlinguistics
I found this comment below a post about the word pen in Germanic languages4yr ⋅ DirtyPou ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Sanskrit is really Serbian, which was formerly the dominant language in all of Europe...4yr ⋅ michelecaravaggio ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Spanish made by Arabs because they thought people in Spain were too dumb to learn Arabic4yr ⋅ salypimientado ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Chinese is actually the easiest writing system in the world because it has ideograms4yr ⋅ Conspiracy_risk ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Good poster is red, bad poster is blue, AAVE idiocy ft. a smooth-brained fondue4yr ⋅ Q-bey ⋅ r/badlinguistics
The “How do we make this fantasy race sound evil/threatening?” starterpack5yr ⋅ Jitse_Kuilman ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Macedonian nationalist thinks slavic identity is solely tied to the orthodox religion, dumbfounded at the idea of proto slavs existing4yr ⋅ telescope11 ⋅ r/badlinguistics
The person who emailed Chomsky about baby Yoda said this to him4yr ⋅ sextinaawkwafina ⋅ r/badlinguistics
One of the stranger covid etymologies I've seen (xpost insanepeoplefacebook)4yr ⋅ glagola ⋅ r/badlinguistics
This guy believes only he can understand true, magical Ancient Egyptian. Also a brief Bad History cameo at the start there!4yr ⋅ Urbenmyth ⋅ r/badlinguistics
English is not Germanic becuase it has many words that mean the same thing, apparently.4yr ⋅ DirtyPou ⋅ r/badlinguistics
These comments on am article about the pronunciation 'aks' instead of 'ask'4yr ⋅ Raison_Detritus ⋅ r/badlinguistics
The British are Caucasian Hebrews....that explains fish and chips!4yr ⋅ ChocolateInTheWinter ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Have some casual gay erasure with your deep misunderstanding of context!4yr ⋅ dhwtyhotep ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Why does Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives sound the same?4yr ⋅ MooseFlyer ⋅ r/badlinguistics
The entire writing system of the French language was based around ripping the king off.6yr ⋅ Juanvds ⋅ r/badlinguistics
English is a conlang made by priests and its words are derived from completely unrelated Russian words (translation in the comments)4yr ⋅ AlenDelon32 ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Google taking one step too much in simplifying Hieroglyphs explanation3yr ⋅ kauraneden ⋅ r/badlinguistics
the KiKoongo language is descended from the original Bantu language Paleo Hebrew4yr ⋅ Darkgamma ⋅ r/badlinguistics
German is based on Latin, and Latin and Hebrew are quite similar4yr ⋅ Melon_Cooler ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Five eyebrow-raising language families from a French linguistics handbook1yr ⋅ suedehelpme ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Person On A Discord I'm In Tries To Convince The Other That To Be Is A Preposition.4yr ⋅ Philosophic_Fox ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Religious human claims Chinese characters were created by God and breaks down a character incorrectly (repost due to not censoring the tags)4yr ⋅ Henrywongtsh ⋅ r/badlinguistics
All new languages are the result of the standardization and refinement of pidgins.4yr ⋅ wtimkey2016 ⋅ r/badlinguistics
English is just more emotional apparently. And japanese is a string of short syllables with much less space between words4yr ⋅ Gorlox111 ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Someone thinks that American spelling is different to British spelling because of a desire to shorten words in advertising.4yr ⋅ 1616616161 ⋅ r/badlinguistics
About learning English. ”You can express, explain and have conversations way better in English. I’ve seen other languages and they’re pretty limited with ridiculously restrictive grammar or none at all. English has the perfect balance”.5yr ⋅ nuephelkystikon ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Basque is an invented language, and other jewels from Spanish nationalists4yr ⋅ paniniconqueso ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Languages use different frequencies, that's why you have a hard time learning a foreign language4yr ⋅ _nardog ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Polish children can’t speak Polish fluently until they reach the age of 165yr ⋅ limunceddu ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Spanish has no dialects, but “you can't put 'American Spanish' under one group because each country and each region in a country is very different5yr ⋅ eliyili ⋅ r/badlinguistics
Hungarian stays original to its roots while English and Hebrew do not.4yr ⋅ DirtyPou ⋅ r/badlinguistics
A response to a Merriam-Webster's twitter thread about words changing their meaning.4yr ⋅ 3AM_mirashhh ⋅ r/badlinguistics
