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The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce
Submitted 2 months ago by mudkip@lemdro.id to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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danekrae@lemmy.world 2 months ago
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
All right, all right, don’t hurt yourself!
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Now that’s a shower thought I like!
It did, didn’t it?
fluckx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or this monster:
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The fact that that sentence can even be considered in any way correct is a fucking travesty
alquicksilver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would argue that, without the punctuation, it’s not technically correct. The references to James and John saying “had had,” at least, should be in quotes. Additionally, unless broken up with a semicolon or a period before the final four “hads,” it’s a run-on sentence.
If you change the “hads” that mean provided/said in the context of the sentence (excluding the quoted ones), you could write it as:
James, while John had [said] “had”, had [said] “had had”; “had had” had [provided] a better effect on the teacher.
And though it doesn’t flow right to me to have James and his action verb split by a phrase about John, I’m not sure that’s incorrect. Phrasing it to fix the flow, for me, would be:
While John had [said] “had”, James had [said] “had had”; “had had” had [provided] a better effect on the teacher.
isyasad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The fact that five of the “hads” are not semantically the word “had” but rather a quotation makes this one weaker than “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” imo, though you could argue that Buffalo as a proper noun is also kinda cheating.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s plain ol’ fucking stupid.
khepri@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, these are really silly if you can use quotes or like place/person names. Like if my Dad named Had lived in a town called Had Had, and his favorite thing to say was “had had had”…it just becomes like stupid to say that’s some crazy example of a grammatical sentence even if it technically is.
Krudler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sixths
gigachad@piefed.social 2 months ago
I salivated so hard trying to pronounce that word the whole metro is looking at me now
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Edididid
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Semantic satiation is the word you’re looking for. :)
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 months ago
all words are made up ???..!!
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Uh, yeah.
Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Also “pocketed it.”
digger@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Audiobooks. Am I right?
Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I think Stephen Fry famously tripped over this one.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Let me also introduce you to the concept of tongue twisters.
Or, to come to the point:
“Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.”Looseygoosey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So is… “and Harry pocketed it.”
Socialjusticewarrior@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know a sound engineer named “ed”. And he does a lot of “editing”.
Who changed the vocals? “Ed edited it”
falseWhite@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Edi de de ded
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Much more straightforward in British English where d and t are more distinct
hakase@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The one I always heard was “Dead-headed Ed edited it”.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Zed’s dead, baby, Zed’s dead.
notreallyhere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
maybe you should edit it
tomiant@piefed.social 2 months ago
Also “clothes”.
Klo-dthy-sys.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Edded a tit
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
similar tone
DempstersBox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
semantic saturation before you’re done saying it
embed_me@programming.dev 2 months ago
A D-Day tit
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I actually kinda like how it feels to say.
olafurp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think European Union is weird with some accents. It sounds almost like “Europinyinyinyin”
alquicksilver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am not sober. I just had far too much fun saying “europinyinyinyin” out loud over and over again, so thank you for that. :)
I think I have some extended family who probably say it similarly to that, too. Probably the ones from the deep south.
olafurp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m happy you like it, it’s been stuck in my brain for months and I still think it’s a bit funny.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Try ‘European Piano Player Union’
remon@ani.social 2 months ago
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AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m glad to see someone’s made this because it’s been bouncing around in my head for ages but I’ve never got around to putting it together and letting it out.
jaycifer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s just, like, Europinyin, Man.