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People trying to pronounce "Loch"

547 upvotes • LegenaryPinecone889
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Comitative vs instrumental

463 upvotes • KnightOfMetal
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r/linguisticshumor and most of linguistics-adjacent reddit when someone doesn't bother with hyperspecific IPA (this happens a lot they just haven't read a linguistic paper in their lives)

440 upvotes • h2rktos_ph2ter
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Place your bets! Is the author’s accent non-rhotic or does it have the intrusive-r?

389 upvotes • LoveAndViscera
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You know faux Cyrillic, but are you familiar with faux Futhark?

336 upvotes • ProfessionalCar919
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Can anything beat Georgian in the consonant cluster game?

333 upvotes • renzhexiangjiao
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"False friends don't exist, they can't hurt you"

295 upvotes • Upper-Technician5
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New IPA alternative dropped

279 upvotes • erinius
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title

265 upvotes • Panates
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English flexing basic latin loanwords meanwhile Spanish's been flexing arabic words for centuries 😆 in fact most people have no idea how many they commonly use.

262 upvotes • DranielSayes
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