As the famous Wu-Tang Clan once said: “Words rule everything around me.” Wait, I’ve got that wrong, what was it now… Oh, right, it was “cash”. How could I forget!
But the same could definitely be applied to words. They’re the best tools we have to convey complex thoughts. And with language being as important as it is, it’s no surprise that sometimes it is wildly misunderstood or intentionally misused.
When it gets so bad that it’s funny, that’s when the Reddit community /r/badlinguistics comes in to collect.
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#1 Ye Old Slang
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#2 “Please Stop Using It”
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#3 Apparently, English Is The Only Language In The World That Evolves Or Uses Loan Words
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#4 English = Bad French
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#5 One Of The Stranger Covid Etymologies I’ve Seen (Xpost Insanepeoplefacebook)
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#6 Actual Page On Conservapedia
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#7 Only Certain Pronouns Are “Backed By Science” I Guess
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#8 School vs. The North East!
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#9 Baby Talk Will Stunt Your Child’s Acquisition
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#10 English Hardest Language
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#11 It Is Impossible To Learn Swedish Because Of One Sound Which No Non-Native Swedish Person Can Actually Say
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#12 I’m Bri-Ish
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#13 The “How Do We Make This Fantasy Race Sound Evil/Threatening?” Starterpack
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#14 Ahh Yes, My Favourite Language Family, The POC Languages
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#15 Today’s SMBC Comic Fits Right At Home In This Subreddit!
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#16 Apparently ‘My’ Can Only Literally Mean Possession
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#17 Three Different Comments, From Three Different People, All Commenting On The Same TikTok
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#18 A Speed Of 1 Language Per Week
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#19 Chinese Characters Are Proof That We Need Jesus
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#20 Spanish Was Spoken In Portugal Until They Stole Portuguese From Brazilian Natives
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#21 Found This Gem
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#22 Khmer Is Indo-European
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#23 Interesting Take On English Word Etymologies
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#24 A Response To A Merriam-Webster’s Twitter Thread About Words Changing Their Meaning
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#25 “English Is Actually A Chinese Dialect” And Much More
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#26 I Haven’t Seen A Meme On This Sub In While So I Made One
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#27 “Is Korean Indo-European?”
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#28 English Is A Tonal Language Because It Has Intonation
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#29 From A Video About A Monolingual Irish Speaker
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#30 Someone Must Have Murdered Cases In English
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