There are three kinds of people in this world: prescriptivists, descriptivists, and people who don’t understand descriptivism1yr ⋅ TomSFox ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
The language isn't 100% perfect, but it's A LOT more consistent than English.1yr ⋅ MR-StrawBerry13 ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
I think that he transitions, her new name could be Palatal Approximant2yr ⋅ yoan1878 ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
TIL that there is a language called 'Are'are and its word for father is mama1yr ⋅ _Aspagurr_ ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
A lot of these language comparison memes do come off like this2yr ⋅ BadHungarian ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
It's extremly fascinating how some languages change in different paces2yr ⋅ Jonatan__5432 ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
what y'all would look like speaking a reconstructed language to a native speaker1yr ⋅ SelectOpportunity611 ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
Will the next trend among linguists be naming their kids with the IPA?4mo ⋅ CaptainBlobTheSuprem ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
Romance languages ranked according to vowel sounds 🇪🇸🇵🇹🇮🇹🇷🇴🇫🇷🏆🏆🏆💯💯💯☝☝☝💪💪💪😎😎😎☝☝☝👍👍👍10mo ⋅ Quick-Sand-5692 ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
they don't know how easy they have it! (applies to English and romance language speakers, of course)2yr ⋅ pinkballodestruction ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
Native Anglophones always butcher the vowels when trying to pronounce foreign words and it's frustrating and ridiculous at the same time1yr ⋅ y-nkh ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
I was thinking today that it would be cool to have a word like this1yr ⋅ Quincident ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
Tried posting this in linguistics sub, was rejected, and directed by them to come here with this.3yr ⋅ willfc ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
Posted this in r/christianmemes and it seemed like people didn't get it...1yr ⋅ JokelWayne ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
This is literally a 1600s manuscript and reads like a reddit ortho reform post.10mo ⋅ h2rktos_ph2ter ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
Fuck it, the family tree of EVERY LANGUAGE (history is being made here)2mo ⋅ Gnowos ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
Repost to your westerner friends when they confuse Ukrainian with Russian again6mo ⋅ PlantShark770 ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
As a general rule, the opposite of what people believe about their native language is correct1mo ⋅ TomSFox ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
What happens when you use national flags to represent languages.. 🤦♂️9mo ⋅ L0SERlambda ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
Albanian written in the 17th century vs now. It used to look more “Romance” because of the strong Italian influence5mo ⋅ d2mensions ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
English Wikipedia for Myanmar Air Force article has its Burmese translation as Terrorist Bomb Squad1yr ⋅ drgn2580 ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
In today's episode of Tell me you're a linguist without telling me you're a linguist, I totally thought that was a uvula at first.1yr ⋅ linguist96 ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
Danish: /ð/ is like a dental fricative, except its not dental or a fricative.1yr ⋅ TheStonedGoat ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
One of them is Arabic haʾ, one is Greek tau, one is Japanese te and one is Tengwar lambe. Which one is which?5mo ⋅ pedlan_42 ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
Kids knew about Q, and they knew about X, but did they know about J?9mo ⋅ S_K_Y_L_I_N_E ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
The doubt is crippling, especially because I live in such a cosmopolitan place2yr ⋅ is-he-you-know ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
For real tho, why they gonna make the chart lean like that?2yr ⋅ JohnSmithPasadenaCa ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
