659

xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

112 comments fedilink hide all child comments

xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

Alt text:

Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wait, Verlan is l'envers, stromae is maestro... Is this Verlan thing just like Rioplatense Spanish's Vesre? (Vesre basically means revés i.e. inverse)

EDIT: Just looked it up on Wikipedia and it turns out this phenomenon happens in a number of languages: Riocontra in Italian (riocontra -> contrario), Podaná in Greek, Šatrovački in Serbia, Totoiana in Romanian.

this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024

659 points (99.0% liked)

xkcd

8591 readers

145 users here now

A community for a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]