r/badlinguistics
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grammar apologist petty internet tyrant Linguistically uncut Sanskrit is a Qiangic language “Don Quixote” is a cognate to “Donkey Homer” Turned to stone when looking a basilect directly in the eye The King of Words I am exotic foreigner who cannot western, AMA See, even if you explain it in English, it's still in Sanskrit What's click clack for atomic resonance? Japan is high-context because its population density
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An entire thread full of bad takes about inclusive language in French
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Cantonese has 'SOV' structures and can be used to transcribe English, therefore it is not a Sinitic language
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"I have always felt that English is like an algorithm - efficient, analytical and very logical. But Chinese is based on logograms, and is much more holistic and historical." - Singapore's Minister of Education
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English speakers are linguistically circumcised because there's no T-V distinction, the swear-words aren't rude enough, and there are no 'proper' diminutives
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Pretty sure the word for "samurai" is... "samurai"
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Pidgin is the easiest language
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What’s the obsession with Tamil?
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English and Chinese speakers are more vulnerable to disease because aspirated consonants
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English has a larger variation of sounds than click languages and could therefore be more complicated and intricate
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Coining the word 'weeb' is making a dumb@ss new language that means nothing
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Chinese characters kill creativity, and who needs to learn British English?
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This r/Showerthoughts post is a goldmine
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Some Ohiowans have the "most neutral and understandable forms of spoken English"
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"'Used to' has become duct tape for people who can't construct better sentences."
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INFOGRAPHIC: A world of languages - and how provincial and nonsensical can we be in their representation
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His idea of prescriptivism seems off, to say the least.
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"A black person said it, so it must be okay!"
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This week on /r/iamaracistvalidateme, a racist is not validated and becomes incredibly distressed
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In which the IPA is a faithful rendering of every speech sound ever (Peter Ladefoged is surely spinning in his grave)
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In which Jakobson's old chestnut about the unmarked masculine is literally the only approach to the issue, because "I'm a woman, and a linguist"
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Badetymology (found on /r/facepalm)
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Guys, Hebrew has been totally mistranslated for years! These people have shown us the way
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[meta] Official best of /r/badlinguistics 2013 nominations thread
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PSA: "If I were" is not a subjunctive form, it's irrealis.
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/u/DeathMadeTangible on historical linguistics