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Oh, the intricacies of a language. Even seemingly easy words require a lot of brain power and we don’t even realize when this complex process is happening behind the scenes. It takes just 600 milliseconds for the mind to think of one, apply grammatical rules to it, and send it to the lips.
So it is no surprise that sometimes everything results in funny mistakes. Surely, most of us have taken a park in the walk or had a cup of coppee. Freud even went so far as to say that speech errors are repressed thoughts trying to come out into the spoken world!
Today, brilliant ideas about Boroque Obama, fronteria, and irrelephants are freely circling the internet too. Luckily for us, the creators of a Facebook page, The Language Nerds, have scoured the web to find the most hilarious ones.
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Kyllein MacKellerann 2 years ago
And it does rather well describe said "Alpha" people, who tend to be rude, assertive, and ignorant of good manners.
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Mia Hamsa 2 years ago
In my wilder, younger years I was described by an ex boyfriend as a concept car. I am still mad about it :P
VonBlade 2 years ago
Truly beautiful, and one of a kind. Not sure what's to get mad about.
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LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
This is brilliant! When a guy calls himself an alpha male, I immediately think of the "odd" kid who always wore wolf t-shirts in secondary school and a Celtic and Nordic knot necklace.
Jessica Urquhart 2 years ago
I like the idea of the kid with the wolf shirt and Norse symbols! I'd have been friends with that kid!
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RavenTheCat 2 years ago
I never thought of it like that until now but it all makes so much sense
Cat Dragon 2 years ago
My friend delaney always calls herself "the alpha male." ironic bc shes a girl. She has delaneytism. Also known as saying and texting inappropriate and or disturbing stuff in front of principals
So what is the place of the Language Nerds? Created in August 2017, it attracted 3.1 million Facebook users by sharing stimulating language and learning content. Its mission is to keep language enthusiasts entertained and informed. The creator of this page even gathered a community that is not only polyglottic but also witty.
Their daily posts include language learning tips, humorous mistakes, unusual language constructions, interesting facts, and creative ideas from fellow language enthusiasts. Whether you’re an expert in languages or just starting, The Language Nerds has something for everyone.
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P R 2 years ago
What would help in so many posts and other online writings, is the simple, yet basic and Necessary, practice of Proofreading before sending
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Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
Ages ago I worked for NSA. I wear an NSA t-shirt from time to time. I've had people quietly ask me about what I know about what they do in the bathroom. Hey, I was in during the days where we didn't spy on our own people hardly at all. Just being asked that question does prove the person have some paranoid delusions though.
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Kyllein MacKellerann 2 years ago
And I am trying to learn Lakota...which is very difficult for an AmerEnglish speaker.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Oddly enough, American isn't actually a language.
Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
In Australia there are more than 250 Indigenous languages including 800 dialects. Each language is specific to a particular place and people. In some areas like Arnhem Land, many different languages are spoken over a small area. In other areas, like the huge Western Desert, dialects of one language are spoken.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Most of these are extinct. There are only about 20 left in use, and even of these a few have been reconstructed from texts written by European observers, and two are English-based creoles. You're absolutely correct about Arnhem Land and the Western Desert.
Load More Replies... LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
When I moved to he U.S. for my career in linguistics (I have family in the US and UK), I saw a bumper sticker that read: "Your in my country now, speak American!" I honestly thought about taking the next plane back to the U.K.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 2 years ago
These are the people who would be surprised to learn people in England speak "American".
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I'M A SHOUTY MAN (they/she/he) 2 years ago (edited)
I live in Australia, and what is it with people complaining because of welcome to countries or calling places by their first nations names. Edit: I don't know why I'm being downvoted. I fully support using Aboriginal place names, doing welcome/acknowledgements of country, anything. Always was, always will be!
Auntriarch 2 years ago
I'm afraid the downvote goblins are on the loose again
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Natalie H 2 years ago
We have several Native American burial mounds where I live, which have been turned into parks.. but sadly I’ve never seen any Native American tribes or representatives of those tribes around here. Their pottery, arrowheads, etc can still be found all over the place. (I’ve found LOTS!). So sad!! I would love to learn more about their lives, history and culture. These indigenous people & their tribes/cultures should NEVER be forgotten ♥️
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
IT'S TRUE XD Or at least since 1993, when I first used the name as a screen name on AOL XD
Load More Replies... tameson 2 years ago (edited)
Navajo should be Diné Bizaad, and Pima should be the O'odham language. I think some of the others are wrong too, but those two are particularly bad since what is on that shirt are not the recognized names of the tribes. Looks like who ever made the shirt should have done some research first.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago (edited)
That is interesting and an important distinction! In Australia we often have people mixing up the name of the people and language as opposed to the land/country/nation.
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Northlander72 2 years ago (edited)
I do that too when using English. If I can, I usually look it up in a dictionary to make sure I use them correctly. ^^;;
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Roxy222uk 2 years ago
That's just normal learning to speak, surely? Many of us would be hard pressed to give a succinct definition for words we commonly use. What I did find from reading a lot was I'd suddenly go to use a word, realise I had only ever seen it written down, and cross my fingers I was pronouncing it correctly. Chagrin comes to mind.
Bored&InSchool 2 years ago
yeah same I know many many words but can't define most for the life of me.
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Joe Russo 2 years ago
I don't think this is referring to "normal words", but more like when my friend was studying for the GRE (and he IS a native English speaker) and didn't know any of the most difficult vocabulary. He quizzed me, and I knew the connotation and context of 49/50, but if you asked me to spit out a dictionary definition...maybe not. But I could use those in the correct situation, and have the correct feeling. Personally, I find that much more useful...because that's what you need to use the words.
Jill Rhodry 2 years ago
Same with pronunciation. I was about 10 when I came across the hyperbole in a book and sounded it out phonetically - as you do, and still now, several decades later, I have to pause to say it correctly in my head before I say it🤦🏻♀️
Catlady6000 2 years ago
Did the same with Idiot. Which made me feel like one
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Scrappychick 2 years ago
After the first week of uni I brought a huge dictionary and made flash cards because academic language is complicated 😅
BrownTabby 2 years ago
Yeah. Although I do google the definitions to be sure after I saw a magazine referring to “gratuitous butt shots” and I thought “gratuitous” meant “tacky”.
My O My 2 years ago
First thoughts: "gratuitous" means makes the butt look good no matter what the butt looks like when naked
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Trophy Husband 2 years ago
Try having a kid ask you what a word means that you can only define using that same word.
RavenTheCat 2 years ago
I say words without even being able to explain the definition and yet i know entirely what im saying
Bored Panda reached out to Yaccine, the creator of The Language Nerds, to ask some questions about his page. First, we wanted to know what was the inspiration behind the creation of this linguistic Facebook page.
Yaccine shared with us: “I created The Language Nerds to tell people what they didn't know about language. The fact that we use language so much disguises a lot about its intricate workings and what a marvel it is.
The Language Nerds is there to tell people why they shouldn't take the puffs of air that come from their mouth when they try to comminute, i.e. language, for granted because that might be key to understanding who we are as a species.
Language might be the window to the human mind and that was the inspiration that fueled my interest to pursue a degree in Linguistics, and hence The Language Nerds.”
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arthbach 2 years ago
"43% of the world's population is bilingual, according to Journal of Neurolinguistics, meaning almost half of all people utilise two languages daily. 40% of the world's population is monolingual, using just one language. 17% of the world's population is multilingual, or fluent in two or more languages."
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
It's a shame when I hear people say that it confuses the kids. Speaking more then one language opens the mind, make it easier to communicate and understand.
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Joe Russo 2 years ago
I knew a child who was quadrilingual by age 4, just from circumstances. Parents each have their own native languages, but speak to each other in English. They moved to Greece. So, you have mommy language, daddy language, family language, and school/environment language. Native speaker of all four.
Kim 2 years ago
My hubby is fluent in 5 and has been since that age. It amazes me. I only speak 3, just like my 3yo
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LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago (edited)
As someone working in the language services field, for the life of me I can't understand why some parts of the U.S. and U.K. start foreign language learning so late (usually in secondary school/high school). It deeply saddens me how little importance is given to language learning in the United States and parts of the U.K.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
In Australia that used to be the way too, but now many (if not most) primary schools at least, if not childcare centres, teach a second language. The only problem is you can't guarantee you will learn the same language at your next school. I studied Japanese from grade 2 (8yrs old) and then when I went to high school I had to do a year of Chinese and a year of French, to give you a taste before you think about whether to select it as an elective. I obviously remember much more of Japanese, and enjoyed learning it much more from the earlier age. My sister was taught some Chinese when she was at childcare (3-4 yrs old) and was very annoyed that she had to change to Japanese at school (but of course my parents wanted her to go to the same school I did, language wasn't enough of a reason to change). When it came time for high school Chinese, she had lost the motivation for Chinese (only remembered how to sing happy birthday).
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Der Kommissar 2 years ago (edited)
Learning how to speak 2 languages at once is easier for kids, and is also good for the brain.
Donkey boi 2 years ago
Thanks to the UK education system, where they couldn't decide which language we should learn (back when I was at school here), I can speak around a total of 20 words in 4 different languages (French, Spanish, German, Italian).
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago (edited)
My goddaughter (whom I adopted as my own daughter) can "speak" several. (sign language, Finnish, English, Irish Gaelic and Romanian) She isn't fluent of course, since she doesn't really speak full sentences all that often since she has autism and she's most often more mute than talking, but still... I'm proud of her and what she does actually know and understand!
The CareTaker 2 years ago
my mother was funny{bothJapanese}, she taught me Latin then Japanese Then English, before I was 7, but.... those 3 years talking Latin to others.... must have made her laugh like hell {"they thought he was a demon, well he's going to speak it" her thoughts i guess}
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Seb Benson 2 years ago
IMO that's a strange question. Duolingo has a monetisation formula just like any number of other websites. Even though it isn't something I would do, as a bit of a geek myself, I can fully understand why someone who is a fan of either franchise might want to learn either of these languages, and a number of other ones. For some it would simply be a hobby, a pass time, or to others a homage to their favourite show and a way to connect with others of the same persuasion/mentality.
Henk Eland 2 years ago
If you are talking about Klingon and High Valyrian you are right. Dutch is my motherlanguage, we speak Dutch in the Netherlands (still wonder why our language is called Dutch in English)
Asked to describe his background and experience in linguistics, the creator answered: “I am a doctorate student in linguistics. I speak English, Arabic, and French. I've taught English to non-english speakers and taught Arabic to American university students. I've tutored University students in Linguistics subjects such as syntax, phonology, sociolinguistics, etc. I've been a proud recipient of the Fulbright scholarship which significantly broadened my cultural awareness and perspective. I also took part in the Erasmus+ project in Europe.”
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two-sided llama 2 years ago
haha i dont do that i cum on my friends pillows with honor and respect
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Shark queen 🦈🦈🦈 2 years ago
Your comment made me smile. She said happily.
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Pensive_Panda 2 years ago
I believe we covered Alpha males in a previous post, she said condescendingly
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◦•●◉ 𝒮𝒽𝓎 𝒟𝓇𝒶𝑔𝑜𝓃 (𝓈𝒽𝑒/𝒽𝑒𝓇) ◉● 2 years ago
haha it’s kind of sad that Nagini killed Snape
Load More Replies... Warpath81 2 years ago
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove doubt
PattonPawter 2 years ago
fun fact: this is a real phenomenon known as Murphy’s law, which states that the best way to get the right answer is not to ask a question, it’s to post a wrong answer.
We were curious to know how the creator of this page stays on top of language trends and how they are incorporated into his content strategy. Yaccine told us that “Finding content for The Language Nerds is no easy task and I guess that's the case for all creators. I managed to make our content broad and to touch every language aspect, such as humor, facts, research, and general know-how. This way we should have plenty of room to find the right content that our audience will engage and relate with. We can basically write about anything language-related. And since I'm a language researcher and my entire career revolves around language, staying up to date with language trends comes naturally to me.”
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Elwood Schwartz (it/that) 2 years ago
Yeah. Caesar is great ranch is nasty.
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LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago (edited)
What do you call a head of lettuce that's been stabbed 23 times? - A Caesar salad! (I'll see myself out now...)
Eric Williams 2 years ago
REDEMPTION!! I got this right off! Perhaps I'm not so inadequate after all (whew)
megabeth 2 years ago
I didn't get straight away.... BUT I did eventually arrived. Late as ALWAYS!
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The Idaho Potato 2 years ago
"What is a debate and don't say debate is what you put on the fishing line." -Jeremy brown
Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)
My Nan's version was: delight was out, depot was gone, so I did it on defender
Irishwoman abroad 2 years ago
Similar to my Dad's - delights went out, depos were full, so I peed in defender. (For context, a po was an old Irish word for a potty)
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Wilf 2 years ago
It works because we don't 'read' every letter in a word- we perceive it's overall shape of the words on the page, and use our experience to assume meaning. So long as you keep the same first and last letter you can slpel wrods baldy but stll raed petrety mcuch any snecetne whuot dilflfclty.
Talking about the biggest challenges Yaccine has faced in managing his Facebook page, he mentioned that keeping such a big community engaged is not an easy task. “Also, The Language Nerds is not just a Facebook page, It's also an Instagram account that amounts to 2.2M followers, and a website. Keeping this varied presence running is very challenging. I also have challenges monetizing the content. But in the absence of challenges, I don't think The Language Nerds would have grown this big. Because with every challenge that we overcome, we set a milestone for our online presence.”
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Melody Shanahan-Kluth 2 years ago
no no no - alcoholic doesnt end with -ist - I am such an elitist
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RedMarbles 2 years ago
Congratulations, the fluoride benefits you regardless of your feelings. Sincerely, The Scientist
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Since 2006, 32 studies have unanimously found that flouride lowers IQ. Looks like the John Birch Society (made notorious by their objections to flouride) was right, after wall. I'd rather have to remember to brush my teeth than be stupid.
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The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
Whether you believe it matters or not is inconsequential to whether it actually matters, but matters in the context of your relationship to it. Sincerely, the Thomist. (Medieval Christian philosopher)
BubbaLouie 2 years ago
Congratulations, vaccines are fake and science is a lie. - the stupidest
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
One probably shouldn't use a chainsaw under water, eggs or no eggs.
Abel 2 years ago
You are ignoring the saw shark , you furry loving monster! 😉
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Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Makes me think of "just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at you..."
The future for “The Language Nerds” looks very bright as Yaccine shares with us that he sees this page growing and becoming more diverse. “We have a very creative audience that is hungry for new content and we expect to reach a lot more people in the future given our current trends. We are thinking of starting a TikTok account and a YouTube channel. We have great video ideas and I think they will complement what we already do.”
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Spanish Cat 2 years ago
It's American fake drywall, no one would crack a cinder block with their bare hand/hands
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Marcellus II 2 years ago
And haunting your memory, and not able to put a finger on it, etc. Rest of the world did get why the metaphor.
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
Seriously, this really mucked me up when I first heard the word "ghosting" used. It didn't make sense.
Kyllein MacKellerann 2 years ago
Look, even Ghosts can get bored beyond belief and head for the nearest source of spirits for a soothing drink.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
I laughed. Now Audi's awake. Someone sing him a lullaby, quickly!
Nadine Debard 2 years ago
soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr purr purr
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𝖊𝖜𝖔𝛋 2 years ago
Scarlet Pimpernelle!! “They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven or is he in hell, that damned elusive Pimpernelle”
Ansi 2 years ago
Excatly what my mind was going to. I had a huge crush on Anthony Andrews. Especially after he saved the crown prince and had those simpler clothes. 🤣 They show Ivanhoe every new years day in my country, just a fun fact.
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Indeed, language is rich with opportunities for humor; quirky rhymes, puns, and multiple-meaning words provide plenty of witty material.
Puns as a humor-creating tool have been around for ages. You can even find them hiding in the pages of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. They’re practically everywhere, from posts on Facebook to business campaigns. The enjoyment of puns is built upon ambiguity (in sound or word form) and the combination of two things that should not exist in the same place. Apparently, not everything needs to be necessarily true or straightforward, and that’s the beauty of it.
Interestingly, children start learning such language incongruities at an early age. They become aware of homonyms around ages three to four, and once they are able to create stories they can use it for humor i.e., creating puns that manage to amuse and confuse at the same time.
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Kyllein MacKellerann 2 years ago
Images of a chicken stripping for tips...Now I need to scrub that image out of my brain...ayuggghhh
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Mart Se 2 years ago
1 mile is about 16 football pitches long. One football pitch is about 1428 tomatoes
Austin L 2 years ago
"The metric system is a tool of the devil. My car gets 40 rods to the hog's head and that's the way I likees it!" The old man's remarks were stricken from the record...
TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
I broke it to a cousin that he was only running 3 miles in a 5K. He putted.
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Timbob 2 years ago
A yank here, and I’m embarrassed by the stupid measurement systems we use here. But to be honest, I think most of them originated elsewhere.
juni 2 years ago
And yet you decided to stick with it and everybody else chose something more sensible.
Load More Replies... Trophy Husband 2 years ago
Wait, wait, why wasn't I taught this in school?? Oh wait, American schools...
Rahul Pawa 2 years ago
If you want to talk smack about the invention of the measurement system used in the US, you should go to the other side of the pond cause it wasn't invented here.
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VonBlade 2 years ago
"Do your own research!"; "Okay I consulted a scientist"; "No, research only counts if you ask my fellow conspiracy theorists".
David A Paterson 2 years ago
You wouldn't believe some of the research papers published in "Nature" for example.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Good point, but I'd like to add one asterisk: just because someone is a scientist doesn't mean they know everything, especially when it's outside of their field of research. People, please stop citing Neil Degrasse Tyson, unless it's about astrophysics, or Bill Nye, unless it's about making props for children's shows. And you can't "follow the science" at all until the science has spoken... which usually takes a long, long time.
Mint Sauce 2 years ago
How would you contextualise with theoretical scientists who have opposing views.
Anonymouse 2 years ago
might as well add argnorant, for those agnorant who argue their ignorant theories despite facts.
evi_kholin 2 years ago
Errorgant: Twice the confidence of someone who is merely arrogant, but with half the requisite facts
Dr. Amazing 2 years ago
I was thinking the same thing! Brandon Sanderson!!!!
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Learning through exciting methods always brings better results, and social media is one of them. Language-related content on social networks helps language learners to quicken their learning by being current and self-controlled. Even on those days when you're not in the mood for learning, social media unnoticeably supplies you with educational content. Most likely, you learned something after stopping scrolling to see a meme in your foreign language.
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Jaya 2 years ago
Now I'm actually really curious about it, so I looked it up: "Most centers prefer to use the left kidney for live kidney donation because of the longer renal vein, which is advantageous during the implantation. However, some surgeons prefer the right kidney because it is easier to recover than the left kidney and the risk of spleen laceration is decreased"
Bobijntje 2 years ago
I think it is the right one because this one is the easiest to detach. The left one lays partly under the spleen. How do I think I know this? I have a rare disease which causes ligaments to disappear. That's how I got a wandering right kidney, wandering right liver lobe and a wandering spleen. The left kidney never left it's place (even after my spleen got wandering) as it is more propped.
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MongoMarcia 2 years ago
They took my left one. I asked that they take the right one because I already had a scar on the right and wanted at least one side to be scarless.
Natalie Kelsey 2 years ago
All joking aside they usually take the left one because of artery length
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Brigitte Koch 2 years ago
"Eine gute Grundlage ist die beste Voraussetzung für eine solide Basis"
Marcellus II 2 years ago
How?! Student clueless and knows they are, but decided not to be bothered.
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quentariel 2 years ago
I love these measurements, not too big, some, 3 minutes or so. Makes cooking sound much more relaxed.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
It should be against the law everywhere in the world to ever put fish in a microwave.
Sarah Stalder 2 years ago
I suppose if they want to stink up their own home, that's one thing. Fish at work, however, is a huge no-no.
Load More Replies... Trophy Husband 2 years ago
Add some teriyaki sauce, it sounds great! I'm not against microwave for things that don't need to be crunchy.
Having the ability to speak more than one language comes with its own challenges. Bilingual individuals often make amusing and sometimes endearing mistakes when switching between their two languages. They may accidentally mix the two, which results in sentences like “Vamos to have lunch” (blending English and Spanish) or “Je suis Camille and you?” (blending English and French).
Sometimes, two words can look or sound similar but have completely different meanings. The sneaky-looking “préservatif“ in French means “condom,” and in Spanish “embarazada” sounds too much like “embarrassed” but actually means “pregnant”. If you use one of these incorrectly, you’ll find yourself in an uncomfortable situation.
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LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
BoredPanda, enough with the idiotic censorship. You ruined this post with your stupid censoring of words. GILLIPOLLAS!
TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
I keep thinking of the time on King of the Hill that Peggy got arrested in Mexico and got out of it by testifying in her atrocious Spanish. Instead of saying she was embarrassed by the incident she said she was pregnant.
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
XDDDDDD este me ha gustado mucho. This one liked a lot to me. I love English
ChugChug 2 years ago
So, "mi papá tiene 47 anos" means what I'm thinking about? 🤔 I don't speak Spanish...
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Huh, I always called those little things on potatoes "eyes." Live and learn
Brandon Parisien 2 years ago
This happens in Chinese too...except it's tonal while speaking it.
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quentariel 2 years ago
Mine's mostly translations from Finnish to English and vice versa. I nowadays actually use English in many things like internet just because it has so much more content available. Even if I've started learning it from third grade (8-9 years old), there's something I need to check daily, usually many times.
megabeth 2 years ago
Tdil THATS why non native English speakers are on English sites. Face palm.
Load More Replies... BrownTabby 2 years ago
Mine are full of plane crashes. I like to do extra reading after watching Air Crash Investigation.
Trophy Husband 2 years ago
Maybe, but is that because you always use private mode for the good stuff?
TeenieMeanie 2 years ago
I spend a lot of time on food websites, specialty food purveyors, and restaurant menus. People will be disappointed.
Memes are becoming part of everyday speech. They are a language in themselves, and meme makers and sharers participate in it to bond through humor and wordplay. They’re actively shared because people want to engage in the creative, nonliteral, playful language of everyday conversation. For instance, take the linguistic meme “cries in American'' or “laughs in Italian” which evolved into a reaction to certain situations and conveys far more complex information than its form might suggest
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Reviewer UK01 2 years ago
My Dutch friend was trying to pick up colloquialisms and wanted to use the British (?) word "knackered" but kept accidentally pronouncing it "naked". A whole summer of trying to explain why he was asking people if they were naked.
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
I try to explain to my Spanish friends the good night in English is a farewell. It means that you are leaving. It often happens that the Spanish waiter greets the guests with a “good night”
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
It's weird that good evening is not used in the same way
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Kyllein MacKellerann 2 years ago
Well, that's what you got. Stop complaining or I'll eat the whole thing and leave you hungry.
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Dan St John 2 years ago
Never have a meeting with people like the person on the bottom, they will make it hell.
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John Monteith 2 years ago
From the late 70s British sitcom. Mind your language Teach played by actor Barry evans a good looking actor. Orphaned as a baby After a promising start it never quite worked out for him. February 1997, police discovered Evans's body in his living room after going to the house to tell him that they had recovered his stolen car, which had been reported missing the day before.[20] The cause of his death has never been confirmed. The coroner found a blow to Evans's head and also found high levels of alcohol in his system.[21] A short will was found on a table next to his body and a spilt packet of aspirin tablets was found on the floor, bearing a pre-decimalisation price tag (i.e., before 1971), indicating that the pack was at least 26 years old; although the coroner concluded that he had not taken any of them. An open verdict was eventually given.[21] An 18-year-old boy was arrested but later released without charge due to insufficient evidence.[22] Evans was cremated at Golde
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Same show, another time. What is the opposite of ... a coward? A bull-ard.
Load More Replies... White Sauce Hot Sauce 2 years ago
In my mind, Juan Cervantes knows perfect English. He just joined the class to troll everyone.
Lorraine R 2 years ago
Interviewer: "Now, Yogi, I'd like to do some word association with you. I'll say a word, and you say the first thing you think of." Yogi Berra: "Okay." Interviewer: "Mickey Mantle." Yogi: "What about him?"
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Kel_how 2 years ago
You're not dumb! You just scored Salsa on you work - I've never done that!
Maarten VP 2 years ago
Why can't the teacher add another question so it's a nice round 60 points?
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
It could be gazpacho, hard to tell from a distance
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Kennedy Stevens 2 years ago
why is it not out of 60 points. like is it so hard to add a single point somewhere?
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Kyllein MacKellerann 2 years ago
Or 40th Hubby? (Don't check the basement, please)
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
When word-wrapping onto the next line. Remember to hyphenate it as week-nights, not wee-knights.
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Amanda Rose 2 years ago
I can't say that I have ever been inside of The before. The does look remarkably like a library so maybe The is known by other names in different countries?
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago
so this must be what the bored panda headquarters looks like if they have one?
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arthbach 2 years ago (edited)
'Ternative' is 'something that is ....' (stuff deleted) Yeah, no it's not. I was a victim of an autocorrect, and stupidly didn't realise it!
megabeth 2 years ago
That one took me a minute too! Lmao. Going to change my user name to sweetsummerchild
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Seabreeze 2 years ago
The knobs and handles on the stove looking at him like "cant believe you did it again, Steve"
Narelle Hussy 2 years ago
hahahaa ive scrolled back 2 the stove 4x just 2 laugh
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Patricia McGuire 2 years ago
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! I guess I like wordplay. I've laughed at so many of these.
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MaximumKarmaSaint 2 years ago
Sadly, I think since she's off the board's grid...that means she's....
Kyllein MacKellerann 2 years ago
And any number of squares, too. The Queen is one of the deadliest pieces on the board.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Philip may have wished to be king, but she never got checkmated in 70 years. That's no accident
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Der Kommissar 2 years ago
Stolen from Tallulah Bankhead. " Cocaine is not addictive. I should know. I've been using it for years. "
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
I had some, uh, experience with the Columbian marching powder. It was actually easier to get off of it than off of some of the other stuff I've messed with. That being said, DON'T DO DRUGS, KIDS! XD
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Donna Peluda 2 years ago
I don't have a problem with alcohol, till it runs out......
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Corwin 02 2 years ago (edited)
And for those who need a translation 8. Situational dialogue (20 points) A foreigner named Tom asks you for directions and where the toilet is. The following is your conversation. Please complete it. TOM: How can I get to the toilet You:can you speak Chinese? TOM: yes of course You: Let’s speak Chinese then TOM: Okay, no problem You: Turn right ahead and walk straight for 100 meters to reach
TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
Thank you. I'll interpret ASL for you if you ever need it.
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Silv Aries 2 years ago
chinese student was supposed to write the full conversation in english, makes the tourist speak chinese and cheat half the task.
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Caroline Nagel 2 years ago (edited)
Try some Imodium. Don't forget to drink water.
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Star the Furry Therian! 2 years ago
I can tell this is AI, how sad. Bored Panda now making up pictures with AI just for something to post...
debora shuger 2 years ago
Google Wikipedia's "Chinese language" entry, which will explain that a land having multiple spoken languages shares a common (non-alphabetic) written language.
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DB 2 years ago
I usually say that to describe someone incapable of understanding basic concepts or following simple instructions.
DumYum 2 years ago (edited)
Suzanne Somers, who was making $30,000 per episode on Three’s Company, asked to be paid the same as co-star John Ritter, who was pulling in $150,000 per show. She was fired from the successful series and labeled “difficult to work with,” as were so many other women who stood up for equal pay and equal rights.
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Natty Tempest 2 years ago
Sadly, I take advantage of the difficult ones often by using the reasons they are so difficult to my advantage... One got the boss to quit because I subtly wondering out loud to the (ott 'thinks he is the boss') hard to work with, that the manager was stealing from us. The manager was arrested later and hard to work with left to peruse a career in being a pain in the a*s to anyone else.
Natty Tempest 2 years ago
Note: the manager WAS stealing. I just knew nobody would listen to me as the manager didn't like me for finding this out. Hard to work with was a pain, but an allright kind of guy in small doses.
Load More Replies... Brandon Parisien 2 years ago
Try an Arab chatting on his phone to his buddies (in Arabic) and thinking his English only supervisor (me), couldn't recognize a conversation. I was born at night, but it wasn't last night!
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Marcellus II 2 years ago
You sure it's a word not an accidental heap of letters?
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Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Oh it's dead easy, I've been speaking it since I was less than a year old 🤣
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
There’s a subReddit called r/polandball where there’s a joke about the flag of Poland being upside down
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rustythorn 2 years ago
they are off the right side of the ship so they are starboarducks
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Richard Graham 2 years ago
I knew a person who kept hundreds of geese on his front porch. He was Porch-u-geese.
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BrownTabby 2 years ago
TBT when my mum was drinking soft drink in the passenger seat of the car and I told her she wasn’t allowed to drink and drive
BookFanatic 2 years ago
My dad got pulled over for missing a stop sign when I was a kid. 4-year-old me pipes up and tells the cop that "Daddy's drinking and driving!" Cop looks at Dad, Dad rolls his eyes and holds up a closed bottle of Pepsi. We had quite a little talk about the concept on the way home.
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Beth W 2 years ago
How do they brush their teeth with him? Is he really tiny? I use a toothbrush
Narwhal Blast 2 years ago
I use a toothbrush too, but I don't think children are any good for preventing cavities...
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FatKidShakeDown 2 years ago
When I was little, I thought it meant brushing without toothpaste.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
To be fair, when he is that young they should have been brushing his teeth for them still (source, the dentist who came to my preschool class when I was teaching. You should wait until they are at least 8 before they brush on their own.
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Kyllein MacKellerann 2 years ago
Yes, it are land. An Island...so it are the only land around.
Der Kommissar 2 years ago
The first inhabitants of Iceland were Irish monks. They left when the Vikings arrived.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Iqueland is waiting to get into ireland. Ideland would land in iceland if he were ready.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
That would mean using Éire instead of Ireland too. The both names are their English translations.
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New Everywhere 2 years ago
This is where it started. Collectively, we settled on bananas.
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Kyllein MacKellerann 2 years ago
Yah. The container expired. The salt is just hanging out anyway.
Load More Replies... Roxy222uk 2 years ago
All that means is don't go moaning to the retailer that the salt has got moist and clumpy after the Best Before Date.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
The salt was formed by the primal sea. Isn't moist and clumpy required?
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Danish Susanne 2 years ago
Mostly I applaud the law that says expiration date must go on everything, but this is as ridicilous as when I could buy light bulbs cheap because of expiration date. At least I think that they can last as the salt if not used in a lamp.
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Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
My father taught English to Japanese businessmen for a number of years. Fortunately none of them had heard of 5-minute English. Actually, you can't pick up a new language in such a short time. You can learn the basic phrases, but being able to make original sentences that are grammatically correct AND make sense takes a lot longer. My grandmother could speak French very well, and could fool native French speakers as long as she stuck to simple sentences. Sooner or later, though, she'd tip her hand (so to speak). But she didn't really try to fool anybody.
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Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
I only got a 150 day streak and I'm already looking cheating on the Japanese with the Vietnamese course like the attention deficient trash panda I am. ;)
Load More Replies... Marcellus II 2 years ago
Drink microwaved instant coffee, you'll go back in time! Learn Polish Yesterday is my upcoming course (or will be, last week).
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
I think I'm turning japanese, I think I'm turning japanese, I really think so.
David A Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
If you go technical enough, all the words are directly copied over from one language to another without change. It can be very interesting to be able to read the gist of a scientific article in any language without having much of a clue about any words in that language. Eg. Instant Japanese.
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Vul Va 2 years ago
Most native English speakers know none of the rules in my experience.... They follow them all, of course, but I don't think they're taught them explicitly as rules at school or wherever. Non natives can typically explain English better than natives
CV Vir 2 years ago
Much as how atheists generally know the Bible better than Christians.
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BrownTabby 2 years ago
As a translator, explaining this to clients is HARD. I tend to just pull the “it’s just an English grammar rule” card.
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago (edited)
As a prior translator and current language services worker, I hear you. I had a client freak out that the Spanish translator and editor didn't capitalis specific terms like the English source file. I had to sit and explain Spanish grammar rules to the client...do not miss that.
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Ace 2 years ago
Ha, you should try French. They have a similar rule to this, but in addition some adjectives normally come before the noun, most following it. And some of those can change their meaning depending on whether they precede or follow it. Ma maison ancien is my house that's very old, whereas mon ancien maison is the house I used to live at.
Jon Steensen 2 years ago (edited)
...and "it is" can only be abriviated to "it's" under a certain set of circumstances. E.g. writing "yes, it's" as the answer to a question, or as a statement of correction would be wrong, but only a few people can tell you why.
boone williams 2 years ago
Sometimes on my radio station, it's Rage Blink Against the System of a Perfect Red Hot Nine Inch Green Korn Tool in Pearl Chains Day.
Moxitron Jazz 2 years ago
Ive got a silver green knife lovely whittling old rectangular French at home (that took effort)
Jennik 2 years ago
And then there's the ablaut reduplication rule: if you have three words, then the vowel order has to be I, A, O. In the case of two words, the first is almost always an I and the second is either an A or O. Bish, bash, bosh - done!
Vul Va 2 years ago (edited)
It's about the vowel sounds, rather than the vowel itself, so in your example it's "/ɪ/ /æ/ /ɒ/" and in not-a-clue's it's "/iː/ aɪ/ /əʊ/" - the actual vowels might change because spelling and pronunciation don't always match up, and as you can see comparing your and not-a-clue's examples, the vowel sounds are different too - but mouth and tongue position are almost the same, so it's quite a physical kind of thing.
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Moosy Girl 2 years ago
Ok, ok, but imagine I got a new pen, it’s a little pen, I lost it, I’d have to say “I lost my little new pen”, but … wouldn’t you be inclined to point out that it’s new first and say “I lost my new little pen”?
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Skara Brae 2 years ago
Happiness is more about the people around you and less about the building that surrounds you.
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 2 years ago
Vitamin D deficiency affects mood. Perhaps death metal musicians just need their levels checked.
Lene 2 years ago
I'm in Denmark and yes... they recommend that all adults add vitamin-D to their regular diets. Personally, my levels are so low, that I have to eat d-vitamins in the Summer as well. I just really like activities indoors..... 🤷♀️
Load More Replies... pep Ito 2 years ago
Portuguese, Italians, French and Spaniards are Latinos. They live in better houses than this one.
contre kems 2 years ago
As a French person, that's the first time I've been considered latina! Latin roots in the language don't make the people Latino. This clearly refers to Central and South America. And no French person sings of how beautiful life is or how grateful they are! Haha!
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CJay M 2 years ago (edited)
En español, non binary individuals just kinda pick one because the language doesn’t work without it. However, some notable exceptions are trying to popularise the e (as in no binare, Elle, Amige, etc). In person have never heard this personally but ik it’s an internet thing.
pep Ito 2 years ago (edited)
I have only heard it in Spain from officials of the Ministry of Equality when they try to give a speech to gender organizations, and you can tell that they have a hard time with it, even though they are activists.
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AzzyIsHere (They/he xenos) 2 years ago
*cries in non-binary with family members learning spanish*
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
Rest in pepperoni my last dreams of possibly coming out to my Spanish class so I can use my preferred pronouns :')
Mermeow Overlord (they/them) 2 years ago
My french teacher showed us some gender neutral pronouns in french, they are complicated and they aren't officially part of the language but it is possible they exist for spanish too.
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
I happened to be wondering today what the non-gender equivalent of "manning up" is?
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Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago
I don't get it... but maybe it's better off for me that way judging by some of the comments 😅
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Tuesday 2 years ago
i sounded so stupid sounding out the letters aloud - "maaak dooo naaald z" - someone tell me why arabic is like this 💀
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Learning to read sounds silly in every language tbh. Me slowly sounding out hiragana is no better
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Joe Russo 2 years ago (edited)
My favorite Greek idiom, that a student of mine directly translated into English, thinking I'd get it, is, "What? Do you want me to smell my fingernails?" which roughly means "I have no idea why the hell you asked me that question, much less how the hell I'm going to find an answer." Rude. :)
BrownTabby 2 years ago
“When they handed out brains, he thought they said ‘trains’ and he doesn’t like travelling so he asked for a toy one.” - My dad
Kim 2 years ago
In sweden its ”The wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead” or ” The elevator does not reach the top floor”
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
I could easily write a long, long string of "full-deckisms" right here. From memory. Mainly because I have to deal with a lot of people who are a couple ramps shy of a cloverleaf.
Sans Serif 2 years ago
A compendium (gold mine) of insults and "not all there" comments from various sources: https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/96/Aug/fulldeckisms.html
Donna Peluda 2 years ago (edited)
When they handed out brains he was first in the queue, the queue for donkeys brains.
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LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
My phone often autocorrects "What the f**k" to "What the duck". I kind of love it.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
Apparently mine learned over time that I don't put up with that duck shít. I use umlauts (when I post on BP when I'm on my phone) so my phone has now started to autocorrect "f*****g" (spelled correctly/normally) to "fücking" XD My sister was very confused at my texts.
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Roxy222uk 2 years ago
Honestly, that's what I heard. I took the song as being ironic, as in the singer was comforting themselves on having lost their love.
Ace 2 years ago
You never listened to the lyrics except for that one line of the chorus then?
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
Not me. Being robbed of a billion dollars would hurt a lot more than being robbed of ten dollars.
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jon gilbertson 2 years ago
Awesome band! Start the Ark is still a go to song when I need to get pumped.
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DB 2 years ago
I often wondered why the British colonized so many places. Was the conversations something like "Well this is a bloody shithole, innit? Let's go live someplace else."
David A Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
What the British actually sent to Mars was a big pocket watch called the Beagle 2, a send-up on the Apollo 11 name Eagle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_2
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867-5309 2 years ago
The look on her face is just "I'm not sure why you want this pic, it's really creepy but I need to finish this assignment"
MaximumKarmaSaint 2 years ago
It took me so long to realize and so much suffering (since my mousepad is currently stuck on one side and heavily resistant on the other) to realize that the blue is part of the image, and that I hadn't selected anything.
Rostit. . 2 years ago
no one else is saying it because it has nothing to do with the content. read the room.
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StretcherBearer 2 years ago
I glanced at it and thought it said Enumclaw. For those unfamiliar, it is a city in Washington state.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
I finally got it! I thought the sign was in a different language, so the entire thing went over my head.
Teutonic Disaster 2 years ago
Either one of my fellow german retail slaves was having themselves a giggle (which I choose to believe) or... they're a giant idiot (which I do not rule out, since I know someone like stupid enough).
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Mart Se 2 years ago
I recently saw a post where some flat earther actually believed that you can learn more from youtube videos than in an actual university of Astrophysics
Dave Nalesnik 2 years ago
TBF, if you’re trying to learn about Flat Earth theory, YouTube is clearly the superior choice. 😏
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Fennecfoxcat 2 years ago
Depends on what you are talking about. Rat owners on YouTube know so much from owning rats for a long time, but universitys are out here giving them chocolate chips
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Kevin Ber 2 years ago
When it's 3 am and you think to yourself, I may not be able to sleep, but the internet has something that can entertain me.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
Surreal is actually a real cereal brand, though. So it's not a parody.
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ynyrhydref56 2 years ago
We had a similar one in Australia in the 90s. Julie Roberts from [country town] swears by [product]. But we were all in in the joke.
BrownTabby 2 years ago
Skinny, the only good internet company in New Zealand afaik, did the same thing.
arthbach 2 years ago (edited)
I'm surprised the UK Advertising Standards Authority hasn't clamped down on this. It looks very much like 'passing off'. This is when you set out to mislead the public. The small print is rather large, but If I was in a car or bus going by the 'Serena Williams' advert I would have time to see the large print, but not to read the small print.
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
Why would you eat the cereal that Serena Williams or Michael Jordan eats anyway.
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Lesbian Thespian 2 years ago
I got lucky and have friends who also like correcting grammar! also we go to a grammar school so y'know
Jaya 2 years ago
More people should have this kind of mindset. You see so many people online correcting other people's grammar in mean, disrespectful ways, and thinking that makes them superior to the person who made the mistake. But I think unkindness makes you way more inferior than being bad at grammar.
Dawn Marie 12 months ago
One more person says "I seen" and I'm going to do more than just correct their grammar!! Buy a helping verb for goodness sake!!
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Because my father is a (now retired) English teacher, I am a grammar fascist. It drive me nuts when I see or hear people who are supposed to be well-educated using atrocious grammar, or misusing words. My pet peeve is misplacing adverbs, especially "only" - and unfortunately that is one of the most common grammar errors.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
English/Creative Writing degree here. I feel you :( My own sister misspells "tomorrow" (as "tommarow") and uses the dreaded "your" where she should use "you're" in texts. She also writes "todo" when she means "to do" and my brain pronounces it like "dodo". XD
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Mart Se 2 years ago
Meanwhile US colleges are giving scholarships to kids who can throw ball very far
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Meanwhile, US school boards are banning any book with a soul deeper than theirs.
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Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
Going by the news reports, in Florida, it's about how loud you can shout.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
And our grandchildren will be working in sweatshops for s--t wages for the corporations in those cultures, if we don't fix our education [sic] system soon.
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I get the point, but saying someone has higher value because they read more, is stupid. Every person is valuable. Knowledge is super important and useful, and I'm a total book nerd and knowledge nerd, so I'm all for encouraging reading and knowledge in all kinds of ways. But why would people have less value if they happen to not like reading, or if they're dyslectic, or if they're more into physical handwork than intellectual things, or are from a place where it was uncommon for their generation to learn how to read? Or even if they can't learn to read because of low IQ, saying that they have lower value, is disgusting.
Kim 2 years ago
Wow somone got triggered. The statue is to inspire knowledge, how you obtain it is up to you.
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The Idaho Potato 2 years ago
Shakespeare was secretly 120+ IQ. He singlehandedly avoided all the dad jokes.
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digitalin 2 years ago
Is it just me, or does Duolingo have a lot more ads than it used to? Also: I tried learning Dutch the other day and one of the first sentences they taught me was "He is an apple". That owl is on something.
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
Oh c**p that reminds me... I haven't done my Spanish in a few days now... duo's not going to like that...
Kare Deter 2 years ago
I got to day 31 of a 30 day streak and just ... stopped. Its not even harassing me any more
Load More Replies... jon gilbertson 2 years ago
Thanks to Duo, I can say 'my hovercraft is full of eels' in 6 languages.
Your local pyromaniac 2 years ago
nah,the coming soon is probably the fact that they are adding math and music courses to duolingo.
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Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
I'm willing to bet that most of Egypt does look like that (minus the pyramids) once you get away from the Nile.
marcelo D. 2 years ago
And most of the US looks like fields and not cities, but weirdly enough, america is shown in movies usually by showing new york or california
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Star the Furry Therian! 2 years ago
As an asexual, i just sign: "No thanks" as I also don't want gender. (Agender humor, you may now laugh.)
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majandess 2 years ago
Yeah. Which means that - at the strength most people can purchase it (3%) - drinking some would... Cause gas?
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Phil 2 years ago
Another version of this joke ends with "The second man gets a glass of water because the bartender understands context."
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago
Considering the fact that we just finished our chemistry unit in school last week... I should probably know this-
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Charlie the Cat 2 years ago (edited)
13,000 bhat is £292.89 or $355.55 at todays rate. Very expensive donot's! 🍩
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
I'm waiting on our Panda-shaped Donut. Just don't touch.
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Joe Russo 2 years ago
Yeah, that's just messed up. The second word, for example, would be pronounced something like "SFURT"
Jon Steensen 2 years ago
Not to mention that they use letters from the Greek alphabet, which has nothing to do with ancient egypt.
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Why are they using Greek letters for some of the letters, and Latin ones for the rest?
Jon Steensen 2 years ago
because if they actually used hieroglyphs the reader would be even more clueless.
Load More Replies... River wolf (she/her) 2 years ago (edited)
WHAT THE HECK. I’M LITERALLY WATCHING THIS VIDEO IN SCHOOL RIGHT NOW! Edit: yes I do mean now.
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Eric Williams 2 years ago
"Time is an invention of Nature to prevent everything from happening at once." (on a men's room whiteboard in Dirty Dave's Pizza Parlor - Olympia, WA)
Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago
And space was invented so that we wouldn't have to do everything in the same place.
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Bisexual Axolotls 2 years ago
I remember my old middle school had those quotes on the stall doors. One of them said "Hope is the Soul", but someone scratched off the P in my 7th grade year. I have a photo posing next to the altered quote lmao
Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago (edited)
Some people come to sit and think but I came here to s**t and stink...
jon gilbertson 2 years ago
Here I sit, on the pooper, giving birth to another state trooper. Found in a rest stop in Ohio.
Eldritch_catt0 2 years ago (edited)
LIES. Girl’s bathroom in our school got gems such as "Bernie Sanders got a fat behind" And "Duck dictator *name of the principal*"
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Reviewer UK01 2 years ago
Massive fight when all the Scottish and Welsh people point out that they are also British. Fight with guns when Northern Ireland tries to work out where it stands with the not in Britain, British* passport thing. Literal war when the Falklands show up... *one of the options, don't Good Friday me!
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
The worst speakers of English are the English. I was walking down the Uxbridge Road when someone yelled at me out of a car window "E-Nopl". Turns out he was asking for directions to Ealing Hospital.
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
I speak Spanish: "mosquito". Have you noticed how the new perfume "si" uses the Spanish word for "yes" rather than the French word "oui" pronounced "wee".
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Marie BellaDonna 2 years ago
She still kinda didn't give the whole recipe. Doesn't say how long to bake the cookies. 😉
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Natty Tempest 2 years ago
Spengler, get the trap ready! Ray, loosen up and give me some slack...
Marie BellaDonna 2 years ago
And whatever you do, DON'T cross the streams! You NEVER cross the streams!!
Load More Replies... Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Who the heck downvoted y'all? Some stooge of an insurance company?
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Skara Brae 2 years ago (edited)
This is the kind of person that votes for nutjobs here in the USA: so certain that everyone else is stupid.
Mermeow Overlord (they/them) 2 years ago
I don't think they know how to multiply.
Load More Replies... Mia Hamsa 2 years ago
Given it is a swedish post ("kommentarer") and how passionate we are about the metric system, I reckon this is meant as a burn, yes :)
Marcellus II 2 years ago
No, that means the browser's/reader's settings are scandinavian, not necessarily the OPs.
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Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
I guess quite a few people will be nodding along and agreeing that yes, it isn't "more easier"
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arthbach 2 years ago
It's not a grammatical issue; it's spelling, and a spellchecker could have sorted it.
River wolf (she/her) 2 years ago
Well, unless it broke right after he wrote May
Load More Replies... Bender Bending Rodríguez 2 years ago
Has no one ever hear of the Character map? You can also copy mast 'm' from somewhere else.
Rostit. . 2 years ago
just open accessibility options. then use the on screen keyboard.
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Mart Se 2 years ago
"Just invest and you'll be rich" - Trevor, 22, CEO in his father's multimillion $ company.
VonBlade 2 years ago
Hey now I started with nothing. Just the $4m from my dad, shares from his hedge fun buddies and a series of contracts from people he knows. You can do it too!
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
First, catch the snake you want to oil.
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
From the international phonetic alphabet. I recently learnt the international phonetic symbol for a snore. Very useful.
Mark Rudolph 2 years ago
We have friends who home-schooled their two kids. Both mom and dad are highly educated, so the kids were always well advanced in their knowledge compared to students in public schools. One day their 12-year-old daughter wasn't feeling very well, went to her mom and exclaimed, "I feel like a schwa!” Probably wouldn't have happened with a child in public school.
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Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago (edited)
If he could learn the difference between a possessive adjective and a contraction, he could possibly be an English colonel.
Lesbian Thespian 2 years ago
or an English Sergeant (or is that not as good)
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Eric Williams 2 years ago
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. - - - Benjamin Disraeli
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arthbach 2 years ago
There have been many times I have wanted to right a book. One that springs to mind is "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown. There were so many factual errors in the first 3 pages I could not continue. That book definitely needed to be set right.
BrownTabby 2 years ago
I once got a book out of the library where it said “he wasn’t phased” and a previous reader had crossed out “phased” and written “fazed”.
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Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
So as she just keeps to thinking about it, everything will be okay
Adam Zad 2 years ago
"Retaking America" needs to be both lefted and righted. It's already wrong.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
(looking up on web) "From Presidential politics to culture, political correctness has ripped through America, turning life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness into lifelessness, suppression and the pursuit of mediocrity". I don't see any wrong statement there.
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Mechanician 2 years ago
They either trust their phones too much, or their spelling skills are small, who dare to plan to right a book, to merriment from all.
Elizabeth VanDyke 2 years ago
Teresa, you sure are a dumb b***h, aren't you? I think your IQ and your bra size are about the same. Do you still use ingrediencies' when you try to cook?
David A Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
My brother in law is a publisher whose books are notorious for errors of all sorts. In a recent book, for example, he got the Author's name wrong. On another topic, I've had a go at righting the Bible.
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Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
Technically that could encompass thinking about them only for one second
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
Isn't it their turn by now? It's not like we're asking you to adopt Texas.
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The Idaho Potato 2 years ago
I never really noticed it on the US map but when placed in the Mediterranean...yeah, it really does.
Load More Replies... Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
Nicely ambiguous. Please do NOT go into further detail on we/them/our 😂
Load More Replies... David A Paterson 2 years ago
From Piers Anthony fantasy books. Uses the similarities in appearance between Florida and Korea.
Jaya 2 years ago
Yes! It would be fun! Florida with all their "Florida man..." sounds like such a fun place to visit! Like fun in the most chaotic way.
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featherytoad 2 years ago (edited)
Finally, thanks to the way you spelled "found", I figured it out but, it still took me way too long to figure out your comment was a hint. I just thought it was a misspelling.
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El Howard 2 years ago
You're not looking at all the letters to fnid the mistake.
Load More Replies... Richard Graham 2 years ago
How many of you read through the alphabet while unconsciously singing "The Alphabet Song"?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
That's the ONLY way I read through the alphabet XD And I'm 41!
Load More Replies... Mario Strada 2 years ago (edited)
My alphabet doesn't have J K W X Y, so for me it's all sorts of wrong anyway.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Excuse me while I embarrass myself online for anyone to see.
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
Lay "affect" and "effect" on the kid. I know teachers that can't get them straight.
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Stephanie Barr 2 years ago
See, this would bother me because I'd be wondering how the natural logarithm base fit into it.
Alex Beal 2 years ago
Elementary my exponential friend! Why, 'e' is the variable of one. I'm poor at mathematics, but I know how to choose wisely here! Acutely, one pie. Is the better interpretation. It spells devotion, now, doesn't it?
Load More Replies... MaximumKarmaSaint 2 years ago
Narrow, irrational, and complicated. (Stretched for the last one.
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Kevin Ber 2 years ago
Please don't tell me those are the Chinese Lyrics to the song "Kung Fu Fighting"
Bored Potato 2 years ago
They are just supposed to be the same character over and over again of the word for foot
Load More Replies... LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago (edited)
I honestly love this and find it very clever. This is the Chinese and Japanese character for foot.
Dave Nalesnik 2 years ago
Please don’t tell me those aren’t the Chinese lyrics to “Kung Fu Fighting” 😝
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Diana King 2 years ago
Nope, they are writing the Chinese letter ‘foot’, but it slowly turned into a comic. 足
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Looks like someone is fighting to learn Korean but the Korean is fighting back 😅
Jay the not okay 2 years ago
nah its the Chinese symbol for the word 'foot'
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
This is only the centre. Outside of Pragmatics we have Mathematics, then Physics, then Chemistry, then Biology, then Psychology, and finally Speech Sounds.
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Star the Furry Therian! 2 years ago
i laughed so hard because i read it like "Mistakes are proof you are TRASH." In like a fairy voice and then just TRASH. It do be true tho.
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
Classification is the true meaning of the word "discrimination". There's nothing perjorative about it.
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Scrappychick 2 years ago
How wrong is it that my first thought was "how do you write in beer?"?
David A Paterson 2 years ago
It is in every entry of bl**dy Oxford dictionary.
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cugel. 2 years ago
Stuff you learnt since the internet became a thing #13. People get really shitty if you don't care about IPA
Roxy222uk 2 years ago
I also learnt that Americans have a **very** different relationship to chiropractors to us in the UK. We regard them as on a parallel with osteopaths and no one would consider it woo woo to attend one. Americans put them in with Scientology. I have no idea why. Quite an eye opener.
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Moosy Girl 2 years ago
Would make it a lot easier on those of us who weren’t born speaking it I guess. :p
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Titian 2 years ago
Oh god...now the chicken has sink contamination, and the sink has raw chicken contamination. 🦠
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majandess 2 years ago
RIGHT?! Also: https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2016/04/13/shaikh-zubayr/
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 2 years ago
Are the names "Latinized" to hide the Muslim origin or make it easier for the population to pronounce them? English speakers often "anglicize" non-English words for that reason.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
He's Isa, not Jesus. He's Sulamein ibn Daud, not Solomon ben David. Stop latinising the names of Judean historic figures.
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Penguin Panda Pop 2 years ago
Thank you Pottercake was sounding wrong to me.
Load More Replies... BrownTabby 2 years ago (edited)
The Japanese equivalent is 🐜 x 10 (ant = ari, in this context ga = there is, 10 = tō)
Steph Bombardier (Stephhhh) 2 years ago (edited)
i was like "P O T T E R C A K E" and then i realised its harry + gateau = arigato
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DB 2 years ago
Learning Spanish to speak with Spainards vs learning Spanish to speak with Americans.
CORGI QUEEN 2 years ago
yikes you have to learn vosotros rather than ustedes
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BrownTabby 2 years ago
As someone in a writing-adjacent profession, I enforce the rules at work but online I let stuff slide unless someone is trying to correct someone else but getting it wrong themselves.
Rodney McKay 2 years ago
I prefer to enjoy the consequences of Muphrey's Law.
Load More Replies... BrownTabby 2 years ago
Nope! https://grammarist.com/spelling/engrain-ingrain/
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
Using the phrase "colonial grammar" displays that you know little about either. And the hierarchy they speak of is a hierarchy of clarity.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 2 years ago
I also take into account that people often post things from their phones, a situation that almost guarantees typos and other mistakes.
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
This is so true, I give technical assistance to service tech all over the world and many are not fluent in Spanish or English. I make an effort to simplify and try to understand what they are telling me when they explain a problem. After all they are making an even bigger effort.
JeNeRegretteRien 2 years ago
Not really because you still have to teach how to communicate complex ideas effectively
Load More Replies... Christof Irran 2 years ago
"If someone's meaning is clear, don't correct their spelling of grammar." - I am on board with that. It's not my job to educate them (if such is even possible). Does bad grammar permit me to extrapolate from such that the writer's thought process is as undeveloped as his or her grammar? You bet, and I'll discount anything and everything they have to say if they can't use proper grammar or spelling.
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El Cucuy 2 years ago
It's the same as English speakers calling their spouses mommy or daddy. Very common when you have children...
DC 2 years ago
I found that couples resorting to refer to their spouses as Mama or Papa have, somehow, stopped being individuals, but reduced themselves to a role. And they're all in the parental celibate mode that I find ... I have no words for it. It's neither dumb, nor disgusting or even evil by any means, but I'm kinda against being so. But then again, having children is that far off from any possibilities that apply to me that I don't really feel up to judge them. Just don't wanna be so. And it sounds really creepy.
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
In my part of the world, it is also very typical for Spanish speakers to call their children Papi or Mami as affectionate nicknames
Dont Sellmyinfo 2 years ago
I refer to my children like this… and my husband. It gets confusing sometimes when my son and husband are in the same room.
Load More Replies... Mario Strada 2 years ago
Former VP Pence calls his wife "Mother". I find that creepy, but it's not unusual.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
I love the way that Spanish "Pequenino" became Aboriginal "Pikinini". Aboriginal Australians speak Spanish.
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Shareef Yousef 2 years ago
Left is Arabic letter pronounced “wow”. Elephant in Arabic is pronounced “feel”
Firefly1617 2 years ago
First one sounds like/means wow, according to the post comments, don't know for the second
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Laugh or not 2 years ago
Why is France in green and Germany or UK in blue? France is a secular country and Germany and the UK have state religion ?
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
I think it's about how close people feel to the church, how often they go to masses, pray, actually believe in god. Also it's a fun map - show's the autor's feelings/(mis)conceptions and popular prejudices rather than actual facts.
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What do you think ?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
English/Creative Writing degree here. This post both delights and infuriates me simultaneously XD
Load More Replies... LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
As a language services researcher/worker and prior translator-- I approve.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
English/Creative Writing degree here. This post both delights and infuriates me simultaneously XD
Load More Replies... LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
As a language services researcher/worker and prior translator-- I approve.
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