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Check The Phrasing On These 13 Linguistics Memes

Linguistics is a weird science, since the study of communication has to include a lot of the weird, weird ways we communicate. Nothing about speech, language or ideas is predictable, and it gets worse when you try to study the way it's changed over thousands of years and billions of people. Luckily, there are a lot of linguists who have a sense of humor about the whole thing. The people of the Facebook group Etymology Memes For Reconstructed Phonemes know that memes are a form of communicating ideas like any other, and so they've made some highly technical examples for study.

Don't You Understand?

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Why Aren't You Laughing?

speaker of language you don't understand: spdi owowlflr lwlwlelrlf siosofo ekdkelell other speakers of the same languave:

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The Answer Is Out There

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN, MFS History Development •B в в • B • B • B b • B b MFS BE LIKELE GO 100 This is so sad Can we hit Tocharian )

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Better Start Asking Around

LONGUISTS UNIRONICALLY LIKE "YEA THEY DIDN'T UNDERGO PALATALIZATION BEFORE FRONT VOWELS" WELL YEAH NO ST LS

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Dig Deeper

Latin: ago (I do, first person singular present indicative 'agere') Spanish hmm, well actually, I'm going to do away with 'agere' and just use 'facere' Except, I don't really hike /f/, let's just make that h/, actually ew, just get rid of it Now, the first person singular present indicative was 'facio', Late Latin /fakjo/ interesting So, normally kg/ is palatalized, but that yod isn't part of the stem, is it? Nah, so no palatalization for you. You know what would be better? VOICING Yeah, also, we're done with that yod, throw it away So, what do we have now? hago phonemic /agol, nice. THAT JUST SOUNDS LIKE AGO'WITH EXTRA STEPS imgip.com

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Check With The Specialists

PHONOTACTICIANS LIKE "YEAH dreamstimme,

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There's Always More

BEWARE OF THE PIPELINE Language learner Linguistics nerd Indo-European historical linguist Nostraticist Boreanist 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

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It Doesn't All Make Sense

Sapir-Whorfians in the studio like yeah the Sentinelese don't have a word for an iPhone that means the Ancient Greeks were colourblind

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A Useful Skill

"Applied Linguistics" Linguistics

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All Words Are Made Up

catgirl enthusiast @Nazxca There is only one thing girls want, and it starts with a P and ends in a S. 10:43 am · 26 Jul 21 · Twitter for Android Polysynthesis – really, really synthetic savaqatigiiguugaluaqtuaguk upiaq) savak- -qatigi- -guu- -galuaq--tu- -a- -guk work with HABITUALbut IND PAST-1PL 'we used to work together but...'

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New But Not Too Shiny

Voice recognition Machine translation Language pedagogy automatic voice diagnostics Speech therapy ESCAPE IROM IA Amateur sociolinguistics Comment section philosophy of language ESCAPE IRON Ld

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Not Sure Where We Are Anymore

Why do you think animals are inferior? Can they express anything they need using a finite set of lexical objects? Can they build infinitely long communicative constructs? Can you?

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Something To Be Proud Of

I'm so unique because of all of Luxambourgish Korean the foreign influences I have! Hungarian Estonian Michif Swahili Maltese Armenian Proto-Uralic Estonian Mari GRTYEAR Romani English Yiddish Tagalog Persian Udmurt Japanese Vietnamese Telugu Finnish Icelandic-Basque Pidgin Malay Thai Mongolian Kannada .ב ל0ום

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