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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

interaction b8 and its working

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I finded this funny.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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