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r/asklinguistics is a subreddit with 167k members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is huge in size, and has high activity.
This community is for people, particularly those without linguistics expertise, to ask questions about linguistics.
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Popular Themes in r/asklinguistics
#1
Solution Requests
: ""A as in apple". How do other languages clarify the letter/character they are saying?"
40 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Are some languages easier to lip read than others? Which is the easiest?"
26 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Why is the romanization of chinese so unintuitive? For example: Xi = Shi, Qi = Chi ; Why not use "Sh" and "Ch" respectively?"
16 posts
Popular Topics in r/asklinguistics
#1
Language
: "Stupid question: Is it possible, in this world, to have a Language that does not have any adjectives? Does such a Language exist?"
15 posts
#2
English
: "Why in English can some past tense verbs end in a T but not others?"
15 posts
#3
Languages
: "Are there any Languages that use different pronouns for “we” (the speaker + the listener) vs. “we” (the speaker + another person)? "
12 posts
#4
Linguistics
: "Is typing considered a part of Linguistics? "
11 posts
#5
Pronunciation
: "What are the usual Pronunciations of “caught” and “cot”?"
10 posts
#6
Accent
: "how would you classify the “gay Accent”?"
10 posts
#7
Sounds
: "Do we know the symbol-less Sounds?"
9 posts
#8
Phonetics
: "What are some of the most phonetically distant allophones of any language?"
8 posts
#9
Phonology
: "How do lateral fricatives compare in articulatory difficulty to sibilants?"
8 posts
#10
Phonemes
: "Is there a universal phoneme?"
4 posts
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