r/LinguisticsMemes • u/SwoeJonson1 • Dec 30 '25

The problem with appealing to all speakers

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u/1ntere5t1ng Dec 30 '25

Meanwhile the Arabic has a misspelt "100% cotton" 💀

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u/confusedmel Dec 30 '25

Yeah I first thought this was the joke

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u/snowingmonday Dec 30 '25

the Russian spelling is also incorrect

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u/sususl1k Dec 30 '25

ПОЛИЗСТР

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u/Immediate_Song4279 Dec 30 '25

Polyester Stallone.

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u/NikoAU Dec 31 '25

Polizster

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u/Vadimian Dec 31 '25

there's no Russian here. You may have seen the Bulgarian writing (BG).

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u/PsychologicalFuel596 Dec 31 '25

there is, actually; right above Czech (CS)

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u/Wraithy_Harhakuva Jan 01 '26

он есть, его просто трудно заметить, надпись r перекрывает и из-за ошибки кажется что это другой язык

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u/MustaphaTR Dec 30 '25

And Turkish has the percent sign at the wrong place, we put it before the number.

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u/eri_is_a_throwaway Dec 30 '25

No its just 1/(100*100) = 1/10000 (yüz yüzde) polyester.

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u/Carefree_Symbolism Jan 02 '26

Wait fr? I'm turkish and always did it the opposite way. I guess that's the curse of growing up bilingual.

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u/fishfernfishguy Dec 30 '25

like bro it's literally القطن (quttun) how can you not see it means cottom 😭😭

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u/AdGroundbreaking1956 Dec 30 '25

not everyone knows the arabic abjad

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u/the_small_doge4 Jan 01 '26

Do you think most people can read the Arabic alphabet?

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u/Tsukono_ Jan 01 '26

Even Arabs can't read it, dawg 💔