Post #3538942
2026-07-02 16:49 UTC
yes, english can be weird
it can be understood through tough thorough thought, though
#english
Replies (5)
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@RnDanger@infosec.exchange 2026-07-02 17:37
@rudy@mstdn.ca That's nice, but you threw out throughout 🙃
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@jonathankoren@sfba.social 2026-07-02 18:28
@rudy@mstdn.ca somewhere, there’s a Minoan text written in Linear B with a similar joke, but it’s been completely lost because the letters are assumed to have only one pronunciation on the reconstructed language
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@LovingFalloutLondon1954@mastodon.social 2026-07-02 22:45
@rudy@mstdn.ca Hey! Whine all you like but at least we don't have "Grammatical Gender". Some French guys had to sit down around a table and decide if COVID was male or female.
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@treadlightly@fosstodon.org 2026-07-02 17:25
@rudy@mstdn.ca I suspect typing that sentence is more challenging than saying it
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@Linkshaender@bildung.social 2026-07-02 21:56
@rudy@mstdn.ca @kristiana@mastodon.uno And English can sound like a clacson, too. 😎 „I was here from two to two to two, too“