OK, ok, we can have a linguistics humor thread already

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(alt text: The worst is the Terrible Twos, when they’re always throwing things and shrieking, “forsooth, to bed thou shalt not take me, cur!”)

Some repoasts for categorization

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Yeah, guess who thought German would be a fun language to learn?

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As I heard in one of my humorous French lessons online, regarding gender nouns, of which French has 2, German actually has three: masculine, feminine, and Angela Merkel.

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Hör auf so Depp zu sein, Scheisskopf!

Nein, du!

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(alt text: “Pronouncing [ṡṡċċḣḣẇẇȧȧ] is easy; you just say it like the ‘x’ in ‘fire’.”)

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What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Short.