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The English features I hate so much that I actually learned their true names. (startrek.website)

submitted 5 days ago by MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_e

Cognitive dissonance on the more accurate name of “Ignored e”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(linguistics)

Record a record? Convict a convict? What an annoying concept.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_leveling

At least irregular verbs are drifting away, that’s a pleasant surprise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisyllabic_laxing

fotograffy > fuhtawgruhfee I’ll die on this hill

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[–] kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think I get the general gist of Morphological Leveling, but I don't understand Ablaut Leveling

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Ablaut is a feature in Indo European languages where the vowel sound of a root changes for different forms of a word. An example from English: "sing" is conjugated to "sang" and "sung". Ablaut leveling would be losing the distinction between the vowels in different forms of the same word.

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

When we fix the irregular verb sing we will create a new heteronym between singed-as-past-of-sing and singed-as-past-of-singe 🫠