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I recently uncovered this old comic from the archives and enjoyed a nice sensible chuckle

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[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] moog@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

interaction b8 and its working

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know what I didn’t even notice. Perhaps English isn’t the guys first language

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Found" can actually be used as the nominative present tense in certain English dialects, derived from the Scotts Gaelic word fundus which literally translates to I'm making this whole thing up but I like to think that for a split second I managed to trick at least one person who's reading this

[–] RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was at least like 'wait, that's not rig... oh.', so you might take solace in that.

[–] Doxanarchy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I finded this funny.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

literally translates to I'm making this whole thing up

Kinda like the Scots wiki? https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqy8x/most-of-scottish-wikipedia-written-by-american-in-mangled-english

[–] spiderjuzce@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Blend in as something people don't even want to look at well done