Yo mama so fat, level: linguist.

It all started with a post on Georgian consonant clusters by lolPhonology on Facebook. As a result, the first ‘yo mama so fat’-joke popped up.

Yo mama’s so fat, she makes Georgian consonant clusters look light.

Then, thanks to myself and my fellow students from Leiden, over a hundred more followed. Here is a selection of the best ones.

Yo momma is so fat she must stay in situ.

Yo momma’s so fat her morphology is aggluttonating.

Yo momma tried to eat this PIE reconstruction.

Yo momma’s so fat, she climbed a syntax tree and the VP branch broke off.

Yo momma’s so fat she always has wide scope.

Yo mom’s so fat she a mass noun.

Yo momma so fat, she can only produce heavy syllables.

Yo momma’s so fat she causes downstep in high tones.

Yo momma so fat she conducts fieldwork at Mc Donald’s.

Yo momma’s so fat her affixes became infixes.

Yo momma’s so heavy all her syllables are stressed.



Yo momma so fat she already marked all the food with nominal past tense.

Yo momma’s so fat she caused the Bantu Expansion.

Yo momma so fat hearing her talk counts as corpus linguistics.

Yo momma so fat critics have questioned whether she actually has an underlying form.

Yo momma so fat they invented the Extended Projection Principle.

Yo momma so fat, Pirahã speakers think there’s two or more of her.

Yo momma so fat, in France they call her gross.

Yo momma so fat when she hear a pidgin she try to cook it.

Yo mama so fat she the main argument for recursion.

Yo momma so fat she split infinitives by sitting on them.

Yo mama so fat you think motherese and feeding are the same thing.

Yo momma so fat she tried to eat Pāṇini.

I guess that’s enough for now.

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(examples from Marc Michels, Ruby Sleeman, Benjamin Suchard, Danilo Bliek and Suzanne van der Meer (2014).)