Why the emojis? Use your words.
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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Ok so let me see if I understand:
- Answer questionmark questionmark letters numbers pointing
- Also monocle microscope pushpin, I did use my words letters, I just happened to supplement pill with emojis cuz I wanted dancing it check I've satisfied scales smile my part of deal scroll.
- ...profit? Moneytongue.
- We cool left fist right fist questionmark.
The deal can only play out if and only if space invader we're able to get past step one guy with flower.
Looks like I got it, I can't possibly see why people think you're a 4yo.
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Braclapa indeed.
I think that reading this gave me a headache.
I misunderstood what "war machine" meant.
I heard phrases on TV like "it cost $1 billion dollars per month to keep the war machine running" and "the US captured 100,000 barrels of oil per day to feed the war machine" and I thought this thing must be some epic beast.
The terrorists better watch out! We're sending the war machine! It must have, like, sawblade hands and tank tracks and breathe fire and have machine gun turrets.
Imagine my disappointment when I learned that THE WAR MACHINE was just a metaphor and not a Mecha Godzilla
When reading books about Robin Hood: "Robin Hood hated bloodshed"
I thought it was a literal shed. Where people fought and bled inside.
Is that like Thunderdome?
Is that like a spherical thunderbox?
Robin Hood HATES this one outdoor shed π
"Dumbledore, I'm afraid you've just put the students in danger one too many times. We're going to have to sack you; then you'll be asked to resign."
"We understand this puts you in a b'it of a bloody bind"
5th grade. I knew what cloning was, but had never heard the word βCycloneβ until an ill-fated English lesson at school.
I actually raised my hand and asked the teacher why she was referring to a tornado using a term for genetic replication. She didnβt know, βGenetic Replicationβ.
Thereβs awkward, then thereβs that moment. π€¦
This post is one cluster fuck of misunderstanding
Sorry comrade, Seems like everyone else had no problem, off-topic folks like yourself are the minority here (more alone than not), I'm afraid.
Maybe try to have a little fun and see if you can remember anything that you misread or misinterpreted as a child. Kinda the whole point of the thread but it takes all kinds I supposeπ€£
Trying to read the word "raucous" out loud for the first time. I came up with something like "raw-shus".
I thought the word initiative was "inna-ty-ay-tive" π€£
Edit: that's a pretty good (less funny) guess, better than Raw-Koose
Why does this have so many down votes? Am I missing something?
I think I may have implied it would be Nice if we could get the votes to come to 69% and it just got away from us a little aha
Edit: this comment = 67% π So close yet so far
I thought the word faucet was both pulled and pronounced flaucet until I was 18. Nobody ever called me on it for some reason.
I chalk it up to dyslexia and the infrequency of encountering the word.