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The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce
Submitted 3 weeks ago by mudkip@lemdro.id to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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danekrae@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
All right, all right, don’t hurt yourself!
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Now that’s a shower thought I like!
It did, didn’t it?
fluckx@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
The fact that that sentence can even be considered in any way correct is a fucking travesty
alquicksilver@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
That’s plain ol’ fucking stupid.
khepri@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Sixths
gigachad@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I salivated so hard trying to pronounce that word the whole metro is looking at me now
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Edididid
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Semantic satiation is the word you’re looking for. :)
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
all words are made up ???..!!
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Uh, yeah.
Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Also “pocketed it.”
digger@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Audiobooks. Am I right?
Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think Stephen Fry famously tripped over this one.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
So is… “and Harry pocketed it.”
Socialjusticewarrior@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Edi de de ded
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Much more straightforward in British English where d and t are more distinct
hakase@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The one I always heard was “Dead-headed Ed edited it”.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Zed’s dead, baby, Zed’s dead.
notreallyhere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
maybe you should edit it
tomiant@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Also “clothes”.
Klo-dthy-sys.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Edded a tit
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
similar tone
DempstersBox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
semantic saturation before you’re done saying it
embed_me@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
A D-Day tit
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I actually kinda like how it feels to say.
olafurp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think European Union is weird with some accents. It sounds almost like “Europinyinyinyin”
alquicksilver@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Try ‘European Piano Player Union’
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
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AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
That’s just, like, Europinyin, Man.