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Source: https://xkcd.com/2839/

Explain XKCD: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2839

Title text: My first words were 'These were my first words; what were yours?'

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 2 years ago

Reads comic.

Goes back to count how many words are in the comic.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Who learns twelve before one through eleven?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago

That's my favorite part of this joke.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

The first few updates must have been riveting 😂.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is twelve a number or a word?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Twist: he knows more than 12 words, he just didn't learn the right number

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I immediately thought of that scene in the West Wing.

President Josiah Bartlet : Sweden has a 100% literacy rate, Leo. 100%! How do they do that?

Leo McGarry : Well, maybe they don't and they also can't count

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actually, I've always had a rather extensive vocabulary, not to mention a phenomenal grasp of grammar and a superlative command of syntax. I simply chose not to employ them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Context

For the uninitiated, uh huh had only ever said uh huh throughout the movie till he drops this.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that a stormlight archive reference?

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

It'd be so much weirder if it wasn't.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Used every word he had to make that sentence

[–] moosetwin 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Didnt' forget this time!

Hopefully I did that correctly

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

How do you count to twelve without knowing the other numbers?