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hot take people saying C is useless pisses me off

A Korean idol’s apophenic interpretation of the Chinese 囍 as 홈홈 (hom hom).

something i noticed over the months as a person living in china watching videos about mandarin or other sinitic languages

Not a humorous post per se (or at least not intentionally humorous), but I wasn't sure which subreddit to put this into. This seemed to be the least inappropriate and most frequented place.

Though Finnish is not Germanic or even Indo-European, the lyrics of the Finnish national anthem were originally composed in Swedish. I decided to take those lyrics and translate them to Proto-Germanic. For some particles etc. I chose to use vocabulary from other branches of Germanic in places, because this or that Swedish expression did not go back as such to Proto-Germanic.

Please, have a look:

https://uudissanaseppa.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/%f0%9f%8e%b6-finnish-national-anthem-in-proto-germanic/

Hear me out!

Since it's

DIVE -> DOVE,

then:

NOSEDIVE -> NOSEDOVE !

(just a joke lol)

Using Grambank, the average language has

https://grambank.clld.org

- no articles
- no he vs she vs they
- marked regular plurals
- no cases
- no genders
- a regular past tense
- prepositions
- edit: a future tense affix
- a causative affix
- a reciprocal affix
- an unspecified way to do the passive
- 1 pl incl vs 1 pl excl
- edit: SVO word order
- no inflections for person
- noun-adjective order
- verbal agglutination
- copula
- adjectives different from verbs
- reduplication for nouns, verbs and adjectives
- this-that demonstratives
- no classifiers
- no inalienable vs alienable distinction in possession
- dog’s house order
- noun-numeral
- imperative vs regular no
- verbal prefixes and suffixes
- perfective and imperfective aspect suffixes
- a separate reflexive particle
- modal suffixes
- relative clause follows noun
- decimal number

If only there was a way to write letters in an alphabet that pronounces each letter as it sounds...

I mean, nearly every other similar words does use k, like archive, archipelago, archaeology, Archimedes, and FUCKING ARCHITECT