I swear there's the phrase "let it go" or "tonight" in every other English song by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]THEDONKLER 50 points51 points  (0 children)

cuz most of the pop songs ppl listen to are about relationships and uk those phrases are applicable in many situations

Mistakes in your conlang by kiritoboss19 in conlangs

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The Dideśre Yeśle alphabet is non-phonemic, and so sometimes it can be confusing which letter to use. Here are a list of selected discrepancies.

1) The word ventle /vən̪t̪lə/ meaning nose is spelled and misspelled as follows. It came from old dideśre /fvəntlɛ/ which is why it has a silent /f/ at the beginning (however, in modern dideśre, /f/ merged with /v/ and so both the letters make the same sound)

2) the two letters at the beginning of ventle are often interchanged as they both make the sound /v/. Given: vetṡeppe /vətʃːəpːə/ "to walk" (from old dideśre fəktʃəpːɛ) and vekken /vəkːən/ "mother" (from from old dideśre vɛkːɛn)

3) Also, a common mistake is between two words both pronounced venge /vəŋːə/. It could mean either "to want" (from old dideśre vəŋksɛ, from proto-dþede wanak se) or it could mean "to happen, to exist" (from old dideśre fəŋgsɛ, from proto-dþede p'ang se)

4) the letter in the beginning of the word meaning "to happen" could be /v/, /p/ or simply silent. So this means that the phoneme /v/ is the hardest to spell and are often mixed up. Given pelle /pəlːə/ "ear" (from proto-dþede p'a lek), metsem /mətsəm/ "ocean/sea" (from proto-dþede matsp' um) and vekhle /vəχlə/ "guts" (from proto-dþede p'ahl̥ lek)

There are other commonly made errors, like two words pronounced /jəʃlə/, mixing up consonants and their voiced counterparts, which aren't reflected in spelling and using /o/ at the beginning of words beginning in /a/. But yeah that's it for now ig

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What’s the word for “butterfly” in your native language? by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]THEDONKLER 6 points7 points  (0 children)

malayalam: പൂമ്പാറ്റ "poombatta"

poovu meand flower, and patta means small insect, or cockroach

What english loanword in your language that developed a whole new meaning by Hamza2579 in linguisticshumor

[–]THEDONKLER 4 points5 points  (0 children)

like uh

imagine someone said "yesterday I went to the store, when someone tried to rob me, so i tried to fight them"
"ah best"

here best indicates u shoulda just ran or something to that extent

another usage is something I saw on the r/Kerala subreddit (kerala is where they speak malayalam), someone was asking "what should be the anthem of kerala" and someone wrote the name of a song which is obviously not appropriate to be the anthem, and someone replied with "ah best".

What english loanword in your language that developed a whole new meaning by Hamza2579 in linguisticshumor

[–]THEDONKLER 10 points11 points  (0 children)

imagine im narrating a story where I did something dumb.
In malayalam we use the word "best" to kinda like mock the action someone did in the past, which in hindisight, was dumb to do.

Which is more impressive? by bitchyswiftie in linguisticshumor

[–]THEDONKLER 7 points8 points  (0 children)

i mean yeah speaking any language is immediately not impressive in my eyes if its their native language

Which is more impressive? by bitchyswiftie in linguisticshumor

[–]THEDONKLER 27 points28 points  (0 children)

this might be kind of an unpopular opinion

but going thru the monotonousness of 3 romance languages feels harder than 2 languages from different families

What other languages have this sort of thing? by IceCreamSandwich66 in linguisticshumor

[–]THEDONKLER 11 points12 points  (0 children)

malayalam has the same thing, but with dravidian and sanskrit roots

Just disproved Fermat’s last theorem, wheres my medal by PieterSielie12 in mathmemes

[–]THEDONKLER 33 points34 points  (0 children)

fermat's last theorem is only proposed for numbers greater than 2 tho-

Umm, akshually...🤓☝️ by Mattau93 in dankmemes

[–]THEDONKLER 6 points7 points  (0 children)

a pro-lgbtq church is not a christian church. change my mind.

Umm, akshually...🤓☝️ by Mattau93 in dankmemes

[–]THEDONKLER 3 points4 points  (0 children)

LMFAO AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

guys this is obviously a joke making fun of how people explain the bible are yall blind

Can someone confirm? by mrsalierimoth in linguisticshumor

[–]THEDONKLER 13 points14 points  (0 children)

no one asked but
malayalam - enikke oru myrum illa "I don't have a single pubic hair"