When you put all three parts of these memes together, what’s the secret message?

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    301·
    4 hours ago

    To repeat an interweb truism…

    English isn’t a language; it’s three smaller languages sitting on each other’s shoulders and wearing a long coat and a fedora.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      161·
      3 hours ago

      To repeat another interweb truism…

      English is closer to Chinese/Japanese as a pictographic system, since there are so many exceptions to the phonetic rules, syntax, and grammar that govern it, that it’s often easier to just memorize whole words and phrases, than to guess how to use them from alphabet alone

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
        13·
        3 hours ago

        And the other one:

        “English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary”

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        4·
        2 hours ago

        Never heard that one, but it’s true. When I need to spell a word I ask “does it look right?”

  • UraniumBlazer@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    3 hours ago

    From now on, I’m going to call it the “Pacific ocean”, where the first c is pronounced as “c” and the last one as “c”.

    Also what a missed opportunity to call it the pacifi-c! Get it? The pacifi-sea? I’m very funny I know haha I should start a standup comedy show I will earn millions and I will become rich and famous and make my homies proud. Baking a cake requires four ingredients- flour, sugar, baking powder and grandma’s heart. By heart, I mean her love. Not her heart actually. That will kill her. But she is already dead :( I am sad. I will bake a cake. But no grandma, so no cake. I am sad :(. I am sad. I will bake a cake. But no grandma, so no cake. I am sad :(. I am sad. I will bake a cake. But no grandma, so no cake. I am sad :(. I am sad. I will bake a cake. But no grandma, so no cake. I am sad :(.