Comment on It's important to read it right

• irmoz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is that… really it? Just a complaint about silent letters, straight from someone’s first English class?

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think it’s a complaint. It’s an anti-joke.

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    • irmoz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ahhh, I forgot about anti-jokes

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      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Does that make it a triple entendre? I’m lost…

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  • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I personally thought the joke was going to be the r and the D are silent so it would be hoe island.

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  rhode island is the joke

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  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I must be drunk or something because I read that as “Rhode Ireland”. Lol.

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• stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also it rhymes. I think…

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