"MANIOS MED FHEFHAKED NVMASIOI", earliest known latin sentence, found on the Praeneste Fibula (~7th BCE).
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Linguistic fact of the day

Someone started this up like a month ago and people liked it, but stopped after a couple days, so I'll take on the burden until I too get bored of it:

Every language changes and evolves over time, and one of the most common changes across all languages across the world is a sound change, where over time speakers start pronouncing certain vowels or consonants a bit differently over time. One of the most famous is the Great English Vowel shift in Middle English, where the pronunciation of all long vowels (like u, in contrast to a short o) changed which is why modern English spelling is so irregular.

But today's factoid isn't about English sound changes, but one from Archaic to Classical Latin. Archaic Latin was a very conservative language that preserved a lot of Proto-Indo-European pronunciation, but a lot of these sounds changed in the development of Classical Latin. For example the Archaic nominative singular 2nd declension ending -ōs transformed into the familiar Latin ending -us, which we can observe in a transformation in inscriptions bearing the Archaic name Maniōs into the much more Roman Manius.

Another significant sound change between the two forms of Latin was the transformation of the initial consonant cluster Dw- into a more simple B- sound. The famous Duenos vase begins with the word "Duenos", which is most likely an archaic form of the Latin word "Bonus" or more accurately "gift", before the latter underwent the above mentioned sound change.

Now for the fun fact: the Archaic Latin parent of the Classical word "bellum" (war) can be confidently reconstructed as "dwellōm" given the sound changes that have been identified. Bits of archaic Latin were preserved in poetic or literary register because the Romans thought that anything that was old was necessarily good or better, and using archaic words for no reason would make your text objectively good. That archaic Latin "dwellōm" was thus preserved into Classical literary Latin as "duellum" - which Classical Latin speakers interpreted as meaning a "little war", or a combat between two people - which is ultimately the origin of the word "duel" in English.

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What do you call a man with no arms or legs in a hole?

Phil

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DAD JOKES ARE NOT DIRTY.

Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.

If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.

Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???

Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.

Thank you,

A Dad.

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My wife blocked me on Facebook because I post too many bird puns.

Well, toucan play at that game.

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There are only two white people in the movie Black Panther

Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.

They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.

I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.

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My 3 yr old daughter made her first pun today and I almost cried. She was eating an apple and I asked her if she liked apples.

She said apple-lutely

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What did the left eye say to the right eye when they got married?

'Eye-do'

This is my first post pls don't kill me lol.

The people in the comment section is why I love this subreddit!!

Cred once again my sis wants credit lol

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What was a very common name in the middle ages?

I heard parents named their children lance a lot.

First post please don't kill me

Edit: i went to sleep and now my inbox is dead, thank you kind strangers for the awards!

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Apologies if it's a bit corn-y
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Gottemm
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so many choices
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Well that didn't cross my mind
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He knows too much
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where do pirates get their hooks?

second hand stores!

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I've just deleted all the German names off my pre owned iPhone..

it's Hans free now..

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I've spent all morning trying to think of a quality pun, just to come up with THIS otter rubbish.
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My 6 year old wanted me to share his joke with you all. What is a horses favorite store?

Old Neeeeiiiiighvy

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3.14159265387279 snek
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Did you know 10+10 and 11+11 are the same?

10+10 is twenty and 11+11 is twenty too

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Rock bottom
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How much does it cost for a pirate to get his ears pierced?

A buck-an-ear!

I Thank ye kind Matey for the booty! I be truly overwhelmed! Thank you!

Holy cow! Thank you everyone for the upvotes and awards! I wasn’t expecting this!

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My Son Ate a Bunch of Scrabble Tiles. My Wife is Scared but I'm not...

He should have a good vowel movement. His next diaper change could spell disaster though.

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Chinese takeout: $11.77. Price of gas to get there: $3.00

Making it all the way home and realizing that they forgot one of the containers:

Riceless

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Two drunk guys were about to get into a brawl. One of the guys grabs a stick and draws a line in the dirt and says "If you cross this line, I'll hit you in the face"

That was the punchline

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I threw up in the toilet
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I'd ruther not say
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Hot
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Saw this on insta @PunHubOnline
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Had a good chuckle
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Today on a walk my son was asking about a bunch of plants and stuff, he pointed to one and I said it was a fungi.

Without missing a beat he asks "Daddy, do you know how much room you need to grow Fungi like that?"

I did not know.

So he tells me "as Mushroom as possible!"

So proud.

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At what point does it stop being grave robbing and start being archaeology?
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What did Jay-Z call his wife before they got married?

Feyonce

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So my dad just died because he needed blood and we didn’t know his blood type.

He was so brave and even tried to encourage us, the family around him, with his last breaths. He kept whispering to us to Be Positive.

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The elderly wife in church turned to her husband and said, β€œI’ve just done a silent fart. What should I do?”

He said, β€œChange the batteries in your hearing aid”.

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Air and space museum
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My wife told me to pick up 8 cans of soda on my way home from work

She was pretty mad when I only picked seven up

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I have been asking everyone what LGBTQ is?

So far no one has given me a straight answer.

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Oh the tangled web we weave ...
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What is your favourite breakfast food?
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Grandma is always saying to me ' Hey what's the name of that German guy again who keeps taking my stuff '

Alzheimer, Grandma, it's Alzheimer.

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What pan is the best to make sushi in?

Japan.

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How do you track Will Smith in the snow?

You look for the fresh prints!

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What do you call a mom who turns into a dad?

Transparent

(sorry it sucks, it's like 2:30 in the morning right now and I haven't slept)

(Edit: holy shit! I wasn't expecting this to get so many upvotes. Also thanks for the awards guys, I really appreciate it!)

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Always part of a classical dish
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I’ve got a condition which causes me to make terrible puns.

It’s a dad-ly disease.

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads that get me though my day to day life, without you Dad Jokes wouldn’t mean a thing πŸ˜‰

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Found on r/Tinder
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Spheres
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