Community icon

Linguistics Humor

Create post
Hot Top New Active
List Tile Wide tile

Hard time to be non-binary Spanish person

by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works
Google Translation of English "non-binary" into spanish: "No binaria" (feminine form) and "No binario" (masculine form)
46
226

"It's so much trouble remembering modern pronou-"

by PugJesus@lemmy.world
3
21

I thought it was an easy question ...

by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works
Ask a linguist what a word is
25
197

Bone cognates

by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works
"Holy Shit, Bone Cognates", with examples of mamals similar bones structure
17
122

Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon".

by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works

Explanation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Name

8
55

challenge: say this (impossible)

by Rainb0wSkeppy@lemmy.world

[ʲʔ̬̃ˤː˥˩˥˩]

4
11

씨발 allophones

by TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee

살 and 쌀 are the same word

25
42

how many syllables are in this word?

by Rainb0wSkeppy@lemmy.world

clhp'xwlhtlhplhhskwts

4
4

Linguistic Perscriptivists

by Deebster@programming.dev

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/16786687

6
149

typical SOV

by lars@lemmy.sdf.org

Least long-winded speech of Cicero

5
98

which one is made up?

by merde alors@sh.itjust.works

from S11 E16: UK Elections, Flag Controversies & Louisiana: 6/23/24: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

19
58

/gəˈhɔʊrɪ/

by lars@lemmy.sdf.org

ghoti rule

12
84

Phonetics negociation

by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works
3
92