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The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce
Submitted 1 month ago by mudkip@lemdro.id to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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danekrae@lemmy.world 1 month ago
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
All right, all right, don’t hurt yourself!
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Now that’s a shower thought I like!
It did, didn’t it?
fluckx@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
The fact that that sentence can even be considered in any way correct is a fucking travesty
alquicksilver@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
That’s plain ol’ fucking stupid.
khepri@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Sixths
gigachad@piefed.social 1 month ago
I salivated so hard trying to pronounce that word the whole metro is looking at me now
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Edididid
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Semantic satiation is the word you’re looking for. :)
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
all words are made up ???..!!
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Uh, yeah.
Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Also “pocketed it.”
digger@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Audiobooks. Am I right?
Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I think Stephen Fry famously tripped over this one.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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 1 month ago
So is… “and Harry pocketed it.”
Socialjusticewarrior@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Edi de de ded
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Much more straightforward in British English where d and t are more distinct
hakase@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The one I always heard was “Dead-headed Ed edited it”.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Zed’s dead, baby, Zed’s dead.
notreallyhere@lemmy.world 1 month ago
maybe you should edit it
tomiant@piefed.social 1 month ago
Also “clothes”.
Klo-dthy-sys.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Edded a tit
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
shneancy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
similar tone
DempstersBox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
semantic saturation before you’re done saying it
embed_me@programming.dev 1 month ago
A D-Day tit
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I actually kinda like how it feels to say.
olafurp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think European Union is weird with some accents. It sounds almost like “Europinyinyinyin”
alquicksilver@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Try ‘European Piano Player Union’
remon@ani.social 1 month ago
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AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 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 1 month ago
That’s just, like, Europinyin, Man.