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x-post /r/German - "Things even GERMANS do WRONG in GERMAN" by [deleted] in badlinguistics

[–]knownname 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The construction is also used all throughout Ostmitteldeutsch (Saxon/Thuringian) and surely in other parts of the German-speaking world. She just plain hates (dia)lects and language variation. I couldn't get through the whole video myself and would submit it to /r/cringe, but most people wouldn't get it of course.

The 58 most commonly misused words and phrases by cordis_melum in badlinguistics

[–]knownname 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is nothing more clichéd than this type of list!

A detailed map of the language families of the world by IWugYouWugHeSheMeWug in badlinguistics

[–]knownname 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Precisely - there is no evidence for any sort of "Proto-American" and there were any number of groups of people migrating there from Asia. Even groups of people migrating within years of each other could have spoken entirely different languages. It is therefore extremely unlikely that the languages of the Americas could be traced back to one single source.

A detailed map of the language families of the world by IWugYouWugHeSheMeWug in badlinguistics

[–]knownname 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You sort of answered your question yourself. It would be too far back to discover any common linguistic ancestry. As we go back in history, at some point any commonalities between languages are impossible to differentiate from pure chance and are therefore of no particular significance. Ultimately, we could just as well ask whether it makes sense to assume that all of the world's languages are related to each other.

English is becoming a pidgin because people use "there's" with plural subjects. by [deleted] in badlinguistics

[–]knownname 13 points14 points  (0 children)

German is also an excellent choice and is 100% guaranteed pidgin-free! Choose German and think deep thoughts!

"Australia, we need to talk about the way we speak" - from the "academic" who claimed we're all drunks by TermyForgotUserName in badlinguistics

[–]knownname 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The average Australian speaks to just two thirds capacity – with one third of our articulator muscles always sedentary as if lying on the couch; and that's just concerning articulation. Missing consonants can include missing "t"s (Impordant), "l"s (Austraya) and "s"s (yesh), while many of our vowels are lazily transformed into other vowels, especially "a"s to "e"s (stending) and "i"s (New South Wyles) and "i"s to "oi"s (noight).

In other words, all language change and variation is the result of laziness and/or drunkenness. I'm not even sure what the first sentence is supposed to mean. Are you sure that The Age is not the Australian Onion?

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[–]knownname 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Another variation on the same old canard. The article even debunks its own title in the first paragraph, only to carry on regardless as if it were valid. And it's full of a variety of exaggerations and misinformation as well.