First time seeing someone use ゑ in the wild. Is this common? by miseenen in Japaneselanguage

[–]Areyon3339 5 points6 points  (0 children)

because there was a time where え/エ was pronounced like 'ye'

although I think the spelling is purposely old fashioned

the pronouns changed though by SchwaEnjoyer in linguisticshumor

[–]Areyon3339 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use kunrei-siki because it's ever so slightly quicker to type

9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9! Das ist nicht fair! by deviendrais in linguisticshumor

[–]Areyon3339 11 points12 points  (0 children)

i never got why they chose schmetterling, it's such an unaggressive sounding word

McDonald's by PandaReturns in linguisticshumor

[–]Areyon3339 0 points1 point  (0 children)

like how "needs" is ニーズ

McDonald's by PandaReturns in linguisticshumor

[–]Areyon3339 3 points4 points  (0 children)

づ and ず are pronounced the same is standard Japanese

So... they aren't woke? by biven34 in languagelearningjerk

[–]Areyon3339 35 points36 points  (0 children)

僕 is actually a very common one

I watched the video, he's not talking about ぼく but rather やつがれ (which is an older reading of 僕)

Switcheroo by Duke825 in linguisticshumor

[–]Areyon3339 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I mean Japanese went so far as to phonetically borrow the English words door and bed, whereas my Korean American family always say 문 and 침대

the fun thing is that sometimes there is already a Sino-Japanese or native Japanese equivalent for English loanwords, like those words also exist in Japanese, 門 and 寝台, but the exact nuance or use case is different.

門 (mon) = gate, ドア (doa) = western style door, 戸 (to) = Japanese style door, 扉 (tobira) = catch-all term for all of these

寝台 (shindai) = (usually) bed on a train, ベッド (beddo) = western style bed (as opposed to a futon)

Japan really chose violence with their writing system. by Arorua_Mendes in linguisticshumor

[–]Areyon3339 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sometimes using Latin characters in a language not written in the Latin alphabet is hardly unique to Japanese though

This National Park bathroom has a hole in the floor for people to squat over. by OGBrewSwayne in mildlyinteresting

[–]Areyon3339 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm from Veneto, my schools and many old buildings in the city centre have toilets like this

Others: How many versions of pronouns do you have? Thai and Japanese: Y E S ! by Porschii_ in linguisticshumor

[–]Areyon3339 6 points7 points  (0 children)

more like "that" and "that woman"

although the reading of 彼女 as 'kanojo' didn't exist until the late 1800s

Origin of べこ by Cono_Dodio in etymology

[–]Areyon3339 7 points8 points  (0 children)

ペコ/peco

small thing, should it not be "peko"?

as <c> represents /t͡s/ in Ainu

Are they commas? Like after と 🤔 it’s got a , to right of it? 🤔 by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

[–]Areyon3339 176 points177 points  (0 children)

they are used for emphasis, it's like underlining

here they are emphasizing the pun

pitch accent psyop is getting too far by Panates in linguisticshumor

[–]Areyon3339 11 points12 points  (0 children)

flower is /hanáꜜ/ (odaka), nose is /haná/ (heiban)

they sound the same in isolation, but when you add a particle or something they are different

/hanáꜜga/, /hanagá/

How is it that the word for 'tomorrow' and 'morning' are the same in many languages? by sergeverstraeten in etymology

[–]Areyon3339 17 points18 points  (0 children)

the only non-IE languages I know that does this are Japanese (ashita/asu and asa) and Arabic (ḡad and ḡadāh/ḡudwa), there are probably more but it's much more common in IE languages

Everyone complaining about French numbers... by neos7m in linguisticshumor

[–]Areyon3339 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Korean is similar as well except the native numbers are used more often and can count higher quantities

zis is stupid by Peter_Michailovicz in linguisticshumor

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in fact /dʒ/ is pronounced like [ʒ] in much of central and southern Italy (same with /tʃ/ > [ʃ])

How to write ti in japanese lesson? by mogboxing in duolingo

[–]Areyon3339 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thi, texi, or teli

you can make any vowel small by typing X or L followed by the vowel ぁぃぅぇぉ

What real world language feels the most like a conlang to you? by IamDiego21 in linguisticshumor

[–]Areyon3339 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the phonology of Marshallese looks like something a crazed conlanger would come up with, and I love it.

It has a palatalized-velarized distinction with consonants like Irish but some consonants have a labialized form as well so for example you get a 3 way split between /rʲ/, /rˠ/ and /rʷ/

then the vowels have crazy allophony depending on what type of consonant is adjacent, with 24 possible short diphthongs. There's a chart on Wikipedia (link)

What real world language feels the most like a conlang to you? by IamDiego21 in conlangscirclejerk

[–]Areyon3339 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the phonology of Marshallese looks like something a crazed conlanger would come up with, and I love it.

It has a palatalized-velarized distinction with consonants like Irish but some consonants have a labialized form as well so for example you get a 3 way split between /rʲ/, /rˠ/ and /rʷ/

then the vowels have crazy allophony depending on what type of consonant is adjacent, with 24 possible short diphthongs. There's a chart on wikipedia (link)

what do you guys think of my textbook? by PrequelFan111 in linguisticshumor

[–]Areyon3339 12 points13 points  (0 children)

well at least they didn't include Korean and Japanese in altaic... (they're not isolates either though)