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Linguistics Humor

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Do you like languages and linguistics ? Here is for having fun about it


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Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pronounce

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Engish is easy. No conjugation - you just have to memorize 50,000 words and you're good.

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[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually ran into someone on Reddit who thought we should embrace it. They might be here too, I don't know.

How would one go about making a "font" that looks like the bonus panel? It's harder to learn all the logographs but you can fit a lot of information on a page that way.

[โ€“] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

just learn chinese

To answer your question: You'd have to have ligatures for every single word in existence so that is not possible.