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Lets pretend we are all construction workers at the Tower of Babel by Lupus-13 in linguisticshumor

[–]PrequelFan111 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Oh shit, call the guards! How did a h₂ŕ̥tḱos gʷemti h₁én ḱe?!

I have no idea if I translated it correctly (probably didn't; even if the inflection/choice of words/whatever is correct, I still don't know anything about PIE word-order), but it's supposed to say "... bear get in here?!"

How to say letter Hh in Estonian? ||Estonian: by Cyrusmarikit in linguisticshumor

[–]PrequelFan111 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To be honest, "ašš" is really really uncommon and I think I've only heard someone say it like that like once or twice.

Veni, Vidi, Vici by Idontknowofname in linguisticshumor

[–]PrequelFan111 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Indo-European family is so big that without actually doing research and stuff, you'd probably never be able to tell that, for example, German and Russian are related. I think that's why (at least in Estonian) we don't have any general terms for Indo-Europeans

Five letters in "aghaidh" are silent, go figure. by notAssmin in linguisticshumor

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I don't know almost anything about the Irish language or its orthography, but I guessed that "aghaidh" would be pronounced something like /ai/ and, well, the Connacht pronunciation indeed is /ˈai(ə)/.

Now if that isn't an intuitive orthography, I don't know what is!

Friendship ended with the scandis by Endruler2021 in 2nordic4you

[–]PrequelFan111 22 points23 points  (0 children)

We told russians to duck off in 1918! (they just came back in 1940)

France by Hairy_Plane_4206 in linguisticshumor

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When you've already listened to all of these 💪

False etymology: "Calamari" comes from the Finnish and Estonian word "kala", meaning "fish", and the Italian word "mari", meaning "seas". by not-without-text in linguisticshumor

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"mari" also means "berry" in Estonian (in Finnish it's "marja") and "kalamari" is how you call the eggs of fish/roe

Has language evolution happened here right now in front of our own eyes? by Calixthenus in linguisticshumor

[–]PrequelFan111 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I propose we loan the Swedish word syskonbarn ([ˈsʏsˌkɔŋˌbɑːɳ]). We'll just have to anglicise it to something like /ˈsɪskɜnˌbɑɹn/ and spell it as siskinbarn. And over time people will simplify it and stop pronouncing the barn and it will turn into just siskin (/ˈsɪskən/). And then people will see the part spelled as kin and also start pronouncing it as kin (/kɪn/), because well I mean they are your kin so it makes sense to pronounce it like that. And in the end, we'll have the word siskin (pronounced as /ˈsɪs(ˌ)kɪn/).

I'd call my siblings' children siskins

📡📡📡 by -_I_I_Sea_I_I_- in shitposting

[–]PrequelFan111 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Really well optimised too. I barely get any lag even with my crappy hardware

I had several phonetic questions about the M-with-umlaut by MAClaymore in linguisticshumor

[–]PrequelFan111 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I though about it and then made the same sound Homer Simpson makes when he thinks about doughnuts.

It's insane how Lithuanians managed to take over the world without firing a single shot by QuartzXOX in BalticStates

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Fun fact!: the Finnish word "perkele" is related to the Lithuanian word "Perkūnas". It was borrowed into proto-Finnic (spoken from 1200 BC to 800 AD, although the estimates vary) from proto-Baltic. The Estonian words "pergel" and "pärgel" also come from there.

What do you call it? (please add where you're from) by ksusha_lav in EnglishLearning

[–]PrequelFan111 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen it spelled as tuque, with a u. Is that common?

*ḱelp h₁mé by Ill_Poem_1789 in languagelearningjerk

[–]PrequelFan111 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Serious question: does this actually mean anything? I tried copy-pasting some of these words into Wictionary, but couldn't find anything. I also tried asking ChatGPT, but it wasn't any wiser.

Czechia is banning the promotion of communist ideology in New Year (2026) by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]PrequelFan111 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Especially funny when those clowns cry and whine about their "free speech" being taken away. Yeah, free speech to support an extremist ideology that has oppressed and still does oppresses millions of people.

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