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Sanskrit is a Qiangic language “Don Quixote” is a cognate to “Donkey Homer” The King of Words I am exotic foreigner who cannot western, AMA Linguistically uncut 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 grammar apologist petty internet tyrant Turned to stone when looking a basilect directly in the eye
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9 months ago
[meta] Official best of /r/badlinguistics 2013 nominations thread
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9 months ago
PSA: "If I were" is not a subjunctive form, it's irrealis.
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9 months ago
/u/DeathMadeTangible on historical linguistics
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9 months ago
[Meta] A friendly reminder about not downvoting.
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to r/badlinguistics by rusoved
9 months ago
wherein /r/grammar struggles with noun+noun compounds
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10 months ago
Prescriptivist Old Lady Receives Comeuppance [2:45]
to r/badlinguistics by rusoved
9 months ago
Deep thoughts over at /r/grammar.
to r/badlinguistics by BlackHumor
9 months ago
"Semantic drift has become a propaganda tool"
to r/badlinguistics by rusoved
9 months ago
"CMV: I think feminine/masculine nouns (ie: like in French/Spanish/etc.) are stupid"
to r/badlinguistics by rusoved
9 months ago
Oh, askscience, sometimes you're really disappointing.
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6 months ago
To impact is wrong and impactful is even wrongerer
to r/badlinguistics by rusoved
9 months ago
"In most languages, all nouns [. . .] have a gender" Oh, right, it's /r/askscience...
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to r/badlinguistics by rusoved
9 months ago
A really bizarre post about sound symbolism and cursing. Also, 'piss' is now Germanic?
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6 months ago
'americano' means 'from the Americas' therefore 'American' must too
to r/badlinguistics by rusoved
9 months ago
"It's speculated that "haha" (mother) was pronounced "papa" in some areas of Japan a thousand years ago" --- /u/helm [Quantum Optics|Solid State Quantum Physics|oh and why not linguistics too]
in Ome, Japan
to r/badlinguistics by BlackHumor
9 months ago
Can a sentence that starts with "If a tribe has eight distinct ways to discuss types of whale blubber..." ever go anywhere good?
to r/badlinguistics by rusoved
9 months ago
In a thread about language prejudices, someone butchers the bouba/kiki effect.
to r/badlinguistics by BlackHumor
9 months ago
Why can't they just shut up about AAVE already?
to r/badlinguistics by rusoved
9 months ago
A treat from the /r/linguistics spam filter
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9 months ago
Dogs growl to signal dominance or threat, and that's why rising pitch is used to signal questions. Goddammit, /r/askscience. Goddammit.
to r/badlinguistics by rusoved
9 months ago
For fuck's sake, Atkinson and co are at it again. This time it's a macrofamily of Altaic (sans Japanese and Korean), Dravidian, Chukchee[sic]-Kamchatkan, Inuit-Yupik, IE, Kartvelian, and Uralic.
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to r/badlinguistics by rusoved
9 months ago
redditors tell you about macrofamilies
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9 months ago
"Why does this subreddit act so smug whenever a redditor says something like this?"
to r/badlinguistics by rusoved
9 months ago
A little old, but so perfect.
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9 months ago
"Telugu and Tamil are largely derived from Sanskrit"