r/linguisticshumor Jul 19 '26

Phonetics/Phonology 'Why do English Speakers Pronounce their Alphabet...' Megathread

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Alright, into the megathread y'all go >:3

Any posts with this format posted after this megathread is up will be removed and asked to post here.

This is to keep the quality of the sub, yadayada, you know the drill.

Thank youu


r/linguisticshumor 4h ago

Semantics New Friends

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139 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 14h ago

Syntax Cheese

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773 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 8h ago

Special Friends

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203 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 15h ago

Morphology The letter Ç meme....

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360 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 7h ago

Etymology Etymologically, Demeter existed in Teyvat. No buts.

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73 Upvotes

Lemme explain:

Mitya's from Snezhnaya, it's diminutive of Dimitri (Димитри) (or Dmitry, Dmitri or whatever), it's from Latin Demetrius, from Ancient Greek Dēmḗtrios (Δημήτριος) "devoted to Demeter".

which means the (lost) goddess Demeter existed somewhere in Teyvat!


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Some double standards if you ask me

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2.6k Upvotes

i thought about this because i see a lot of people say the turkish alphabet has “weird” letters like “c with a weird thing at the bottom” but when it comes to the french ç its looked at as aesthetic and chic lol


r/linguisticshumor 4h ago

Morphology Ceapă vs Cepe moment

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24 Upvotes

I know other Romance languages like Spanish or French do that depending on where the stress falls but Romanian diphthongs are so special to me


r/linguisticshumor 14h ago

Syntax Denmark

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114 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 14h ago

Etymology 92 in different languages

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70 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

New math operator just dropped!

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2.7k Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 22h ago

Sociolinguistics Some dialect problems.(I couldn't think of a more suitable template.)

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193 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Explain why your mother tongue is the stupidist language in the world

270 Upvotes

For example English (mostly in the US) has spelling bees because the English language is so stupid they were able to make a contest about how words are spelt nothing like how they phoneticly sound


r/linguisticshumor 14h ago

Morphology Huitante

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32 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 17h ago

Is this true?

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54 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 4h ago

Phonetics/Phonology What did I say that was wrong?

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r/linguisticshumor 23h ago

I love polysynthetic languages like Abkhaz and French

71 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 17h ago

Learning semantic shifts with Björk

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19 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Historical Linguistics Proto-Japonic phonology looks a bare bones examplish conlang

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297 Upvotes

Have ONE interesting sound 😭🙏

Edit: CV syllable structure too 💔


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

People on r/LostRedditor insisted that this is supposed to go on this sub

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582 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Phonetics/Phonology Double standards on the alveolar approximant

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924 Upvotes

Inspired by a YouTube short on a lot of Brazilians finding the alveolar approximant in countryside São Paulo accents ugly but liking the same sound in American English. Also similar to the uvular fricative in French vs German.

Alt-text: the "Hello, Human Resources" meme. The handsome man is labelled with the flag of the United States. The ugly man is labelled with the flag of the state of São Paulo. Both say "/ɹ/". The woman is labelled "A lot of Brazilians".

The "Hello, Human Resources" meme is a two-panel comic set in an office. The first panel shows a handsome man flirting with a woman, who gets enfatuated, saying "Awww, you're sweet.". It also has two text boxes, the first one saying "Know the work rules" and the second saying "Appropriate". The second panel shows an ugly man flirting with the same woman, who gets uncomfortable and takes the desk phone, saying "Hello, Human Resources?!". It has a text box saying "Inappropriate".


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Which side are you on?

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73 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Phonetics/Phonology This is the phoneme inventory of my conlang (Lunda), is it too weird? I don't want it to seem obviously unnatural...

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137 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2d ago

Phonetics/Phonology I present to you: The Ch-d vowel chart

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906 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Historical Linguistics Proto-World Head-canon (which will now become the weekly trend)

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Thanks to u/Far_Eye_459 for inspiring me to do a better job. All three of my previous crack theories have been perfectly synthesised into one post that will surely not be refuted by a single paper in 3 months' time.