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Linguistics101: The Uniqueness Across World Languages

Everyone knows that communication is crucial in everyone’s life. It requires the use of language as the tool of interaction among human beings in a society. Moreover, Language is essential to gain our knowledge, especially in understanding foreign culture or perspective. 

Let’s remember the childhood era, where we used to imitate what our parents said by babbling an abstract utterance or imitating the language used in the environment such as slang or idiom. This kind of phenomenon indicates our first experience in using a language.

Anyways peeps… Talking about languages among communication, have you ever found any fact regarding the uniqueness or the fun facts in your own language? Either have or haven't, you come to the right place by reading this premiere article of Linguistics101!

This article will entertain you this Saturday Night by illustrating how funny and unique languages in the world is. Without any further chit-chat, let’s take a look at the illustrations below:

1.      Soy Milk = English vs Spanish

In English, soy milk is the combination of two nouns that have a function as an adjective. It has a direct meaning that refers to vegan milk where soy is the main ingredient. Meanwhile, the phrase “soy milk” means differently in Spanish which is hilarious to interpret, when it translated to English, Soy means “I’m”.

Do you recognize what’s funny in this phrase? Yeah, the thing that makes this phrase funny is the contradiction across both languages in the one of linguistics aspect, which is semantics since we can see that “Soy Milk” means the milk is introducing itself using Spanish.

A: Hey, what are you?

B: Soy Milk. (I am Milk)

(https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/what_if_soy_milk_is_just_regular_milk_introducing_itself_in_spanish_joke)

2.      Connotation and ambiguity crisis

(1)   Forgive me, Father, I have sinned

(2)   Sorry daddy, I’ve been naughty

(cr: https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/6ktzp7/forgive_me_father_for_i_have_sinned_and_im_sorry/)

Now let’s think and compare, what makes both utterances sound different and hilarious? Of course, the different connotation! The first utterance connotates how humans beg forgiveness towards God. Meanwhile, the second utterance connotates an ambiguous circumstance, if you know what I mean, lmao :D

Although both utterances might almost have the same meaning in general, please be careful in choosing a synonym when changing the diction of your writing.

3.      Indonesian “Suka” vs Russian “Suka” (сука)

Bahasa Indonesia comes from the Austronesian family, while Russian come from the Balto-Slavic family. The way Bahasa Indonesia denotes the word “suka” is different from how Russian denotes it. In Bahasa, “suka” means Like, while in Russian (сука) /su:ka/ means a rude word (b*tch). So, don’t even try to say “Aku suka kamu” to a Russian girl! If you do, the girl will immediately notice the “suka” word, and then she will slap you, let’s imagine how ironic is this, LOL.

Despite all of that uniqueness, learning a language is fun because you can barely connect with every joke in that language, or you’re able to compare all the unique facts across language by yourself next time!

That’s all about the funny facts across language, please comment below if you have another funny fact relating to our topic in this episode!

Thank you for visiting, hope you enjoy this article, peeps! See you in the next episode 😊

Keep fighting and SASING-BOOM!!

REFERENCES

https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/why-is-language-important/

https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/what_if_soy_milk_is_just_regular_milk_introducing_itself_in_spanish_joke

https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/6ktzp7/forgive_me_father_for_i_have_sinned_and_im_sorry/

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=suka


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