r/linguisticshumor

The funniest detail to me is that only Brits would use it (that's what you get for watching Matt Rose videos in bed before going to sleep). I wonder why Americans didn't--OOOH I SEE LMAO.

This image had me thinking of which words exist in any of these “departments.” Personally I’m fascinated how the word “dial,” either as a verb or a noun, is heading to the right.

So I was bored as fuck yesterday and came up with this. Initially I was trying to learn more about ideographic scripts and trying to create something like a Chinese-style script for Latin languages so I could use less paper for writing, but that proved difficult quickly (who would have thought!) and I switched to playing around with the idea of codifying the Portuguese phonology in hangul-style blocks instead. It doesn't really make my writing much shorter but the more I work on it the more I like it. Now I'm ready for Reddit to ruin my hobby and point out all the flaws in it (seriously though, I'm taking pointers to improve!)

Thought you guys would enjoy it in a thanks I hate it kinda way.

Last slide's transliteration (1:1, phonemic + punctuation):

>ola, rrédit!
meu objetivo inisial
érâ criar un tipo de "xórtrrand", mâs
mesmo ce iso falhe,
gostei do rrezultado!

And in actual Portuguese:

>Olá, Reddit! Meu objetivo inicial era criar um tipo de shorthand, mas mesmo que isso falhe, gostei do resultado!

Translated:

>Hello, Reddit! My initial goal was to create some kind of shorthand, but even if this fails, I like the result!

A few notes:

• I know I made some symbols too similar. If I end up taking this seriously I'll rework some of them, mainly some of the vowel symbols and improving the distinction between the fricative, voiced and fricative+voiced markers, as well as making some of them seem less like the wrong Latin letter (looking at you, X and J)
• Vowels used are mostly standard but lean Brazilian Portuguese; notably this lacks the European "e caduc" and uses closed ô where PT-EU would use ó (I may have missed more differences)
• I want to make one of these for English, let me know if you know of any ones done previously that work

The word lisp is a heterological word.

You know how crustaceans are inclined to become more physiologically like a crab over time?

I’m developing the theory that the most popular sport in a given society is inclined to eventually be called "football".

My evidence is thus:

* the most popular sport in Ireland is football (Gaelic football)

* the most popular sport in Australia is football (Aussie rules)

* the most popular sport in USA is football (American football)

* the most popular sport in much of the rest of the world is football/fútbol/etc (association football/soccer)

Intermediate forms in the process of footballisation include Fußball and futsal

Issues with this hypothesis:

* Italians say calcio

* rugby football seems inclined to be shortened to rugby rather than football even in societies where it is the major sport, such as New Zealand

* might not apply if the most popular sport in a society doesn’t involve an inflated object e.g. Canadians prefer ice hockey which uses a puck

Thoughts?

this joke is so bad lmao

Amazing how the jerks who berate others for their language never actually know anything about languages. Also, expect said jerks to get lots of upvotes for their "astute" observations

¿Qué verga acabás de decir de mí, boludito? Te voy a hacer saber que me gradué con honores de mi clase de la Agrupación de Buzos Tácticos, y que estuve involucrado en varias incursiones secretas contra los ingleses, y que tengo más de 300 muertes confirmadas. Estoy entrenado en guerra de guerrillas y soy el mejor francotirador en todas las fuerzas armadas de la República Argentina. No sos nada más que otro blanco más para mí. Te voy a borrar con una precisión nunca antes vista, te lo juro por la argolluda Virgen. ¿Pensás que podés hacer lo que te salga del ojete, diciéndome esa mierda en el internet? Volvelo a pensar, forro. Mientras hablamos ya estoy contactando a mi red secreta de espías alrededor del continente americano y tu dirección IP se está rastreando en este mismo instante, así que preparate para lo que te viene, forro usado. Esta tempesta va a destruir la patética cosa que llamás tu vida. Te voy a reventar el orto, pendejo de mierda. Puedo estar dondequiera, cuando sea, y te puedo matar en más de setecientas formas, y eso sólo con mis propias manos. No sólo estoy entrenado extensivamente en combate cuerpo a cuerpo, también tengo acceso al arsenal entero de la república argentina (4 FN-FALs contados), y lo voy a usar para borrar tu ojete miserable de la faz del continente, pelotudito. Si sólo hubieses podido saber la atroz retribución que iba a traer tu comentario “vivo”, por ahí hubieras cerrado el orto. Pero no pudiste, no lo hiciste, y cagaste, degenerado mental. Voy a cagar furia sobre vos y te vas a ahogar en ella. Estás muerto, pibito.

Thank you to whoever provided, as always the link is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r2iCRj6533GX48WDOOVziFU_ly8R2JhVAPeNILFBS54/edit?usp=sharing