Linguistics Humor

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What's your favourite type of beer? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Evkob@lemmy.ca to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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(For some context, I live in Canada, beer labels are bilingually English & French here)

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Ah, finally, we can figure out what Cicero is talking about! (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Milky way is the Milky milk (web.archive.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Drum and bass (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 month ago by DearMoogle@lemmy.today to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Homograph/homophone post

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Chickens (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago by lvxferre@mander.xyz to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Something-mology (feddit.nl)
submitted 2 months ago by Gartenschretel@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Welsh orthography (media.kbin.earth)
submitted 2 months ago by Skua@kbin.earth to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Basically twins? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26119689

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Evil Beekes be like: (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 4 months ago by hopeleft to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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No Pre-Greek origin today >:)

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þeodisce spræc (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago by silverchase@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Though I was taught this through, or so I thought, it's still tough throughout. (beehaw.org)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by lvxferre@mander.xyz to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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English is a strange language. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 months ago by Gartenschretel@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25626225

I know no other languages, so i guess Im just gonna have to roll with it.

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Lorem ipsum (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Multi-lingual (i.imgur.com)
submitted 4 months ago by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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ghoti shall set us free (startrek.website)
submitted 4 months ago by MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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The many forms of Pain (au Chocolat) (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Any Low German speakers here? (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 6 months ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Phase Change (xkcd) (imgs.xkcd.com)
submitted 6 months ago by Deebster@infosec.pub to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3025

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It's alright (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Medieval Twitter (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago by silverchase@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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The wonders of English spelling (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 6 months ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Explain French (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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Hard time to be non-binary Spanish person (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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"It's so much trouble remembering modern pronou-" (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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I thought it was an easy question ... (feddit.org)
submitted 7 months ago by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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