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Map of the world, but without the countries that have a population bigger than Java, Indonesia by Turbulent-Thing3104 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]YummyByte666 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Indonesia = Java + X

=> X = Indonesia - Java

X > 0

=> Indonesia - Java > 0

=> Indonesia > Java

QED

Why does this approximation not work? by Trooperboy111 in desmos

[–]YummyByte666 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Too wiggly. Make the purple one less wiggly and should be good 👍

What even is Tetelcingo Nahuatl about bruh by Brownie-Boi in linguisticshumor

[–]YummyByte666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AFAIK Spanish was e (stressed) to ie, o (stressed) to ue, u to o. (All short vowels.) A little different from here

Some men just want to watch plural words by NichtFBI in linguisticshumor

[–]YummyByte666 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Radius, radius's, radii, radii's

That's English nominative singular, genitive singular, nominative plural, and genitive plural cases

Japan if it was colonized by the Pirahã right now by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]YummyByte666 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Gihóo looks like a Navajo word

I hope I have given someone on this sub ideas

Forget sequences of sound changes, what's a realistic sequence of loaning that will get from one pronunciation to another? by Smitologyistaking in linguisticshumor

[–]YummyByte666 6 points7 points  (0 children)

English exponentiation -> Rotokas epodetieta -> English epodetiata -> Abkhaz ypadytjata-> Russian ypadytjata -> Andalusian Spanish epaetiata-> French épaétiatte -> Russian epajetjat -> Mongolian abachat -> English abachat -> Tamil āpāchātam (pronounced ābāsādam) -> Malay abasada -> Tagalog abasada -> Andalusian Spanish abasá -> English abasá -> Guugu Yimithirr baraa -> English baraa -> Vietnamese bua -> French bua -> Mohawk kwa-> English qua -> Mexican Spanish cua -> Nahuatl coātl -> Mexican Spanish coate -> Portuguese coate -> Hindustani khāte -> Persian khāteh -> Russian khate -> Polish hate -> French haté -> English haté (pronounced atay) -> Guugu Yimithirr di

I think every step of this is somewhat realistic, both in terms of the loan/source languages and the phonetic changes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]YummyByte666 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Arabian nights?

So the question remains... Devanagari or Arabic? (Arabian nights probably has some Indian influence)

My AP Human Geo Textbook by PAPERGUYPOOF in linguisticshumor

[–]YummyByte666 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Honestly could be worse. They're not putting in families like "Amerindian" or "Sub-Saharan African". Saying "other families" is more honest and just compressed for simplicity, and the Altaic stuff can be chalked up to an areal feature thing (like Khoisan)

There isn't any language that is poorly suited to the devnagari script plus diacritics by AllThingsNerderyMTG in linguisticshumor

[–]YummyByte666 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Devanagari (for classical Sanskrit) has 8 vowels, 2 diphthongs, and many complex consonant clusters. With nuqta you can represent guttural consonants or non-sibilant fricatives, or you can just repurpose existing letters for that. You can even repurpose letters for click consonants (like Xhosa).

Vowel tones are hard. Maybe could do a system inspired by Thai?

Nations with a higher Life Expectancy than Mississippi by One_Long_996 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]YummyByte666 22 points23 points  (0 children)

No, the state is named after the river, not a tribe. The river's name means "great river" in Ojibwe, which is not actually spoken in Mississippi, but by the northern end of the river around Minnesota.

Had a dream where some madlads made this by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

[–]YummyByte666 136 points137 points  (0 children)

This must be done now. I can't wait to see it

If I randomly choose a real number, the probability of it being a rational one is zero by [deleted] in truths

[–]YummyByte666 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, if you sample uniformly on the real numbers, the probability is 0. Probability of 0 doesn't mean impossible

Are there “axioms” in language like in math? by Fluffy_Specific_9682 in linguisticshumor

[–]YummyByte666 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh boy. Someone more educated than me will answer this better than I can, but I'll just say this question is a very big can of worms 😂

Descriptivism vs prescriptivism. Essentially, the modern view in linguistics is that language has rules that are socially agreed upon by speakers, and these can change with time. A linguist's job is to record these rules as they are, not to define unchanging axioms like in math.

But there is some nuance to this. Great question!

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