soldier ### brush stamp man seal?
Real easy
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to memes@sopuli.xyz
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blinfabian@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
remon@ani.social 2 weeks ago
They are all seals.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Thanks. English first language here and it went right over my head. But then the first was a soldier to me.
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Technically, Seal the singer is also an animal.
waz@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
British English took over for me, It was ‘obviously’;
Soldier, bushing, varnish.
Seal, seal, seal.
Couldn’t work out why the top row was with the bottom row at all.
(There are no ‘navy seals’ to us, it’s SBS - special boat service, like SAS but bad-asser, and more secret?)
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Valve seal in an engine.
jam12705@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
#2 is an engine valve stem seal
thymos@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Stable genius
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The wax seal doesn’t work that way - the stamp should be inverted.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think assuming a fuck up is a valid interpretation. Another explanation could be that stamps sometimes have a top that shows the final look and size of the stamp. I know that’s not usual for a wax seal, but there’s no rule saying you can’t.
Dragonstaff@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Why use many word when one word do trick?
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Too many words. Could you, like, narrow that down?
Iceman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Words<word
thewitchslayer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
At most you’re saving a miniscule amount of time. What are you going to do with all this time?
davitz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I think this might work better with 4 frames since 3 of these images show items that fall under the same definition for seal since their purpose is to prevent something from getting into/out of somewhere.
JillyB@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
I think the singer doesn’t count either since that’s someone’s name which could be anything in any language. Also the navy seal is named after the animal. It’s 2 frames. “Seal” the animal and “seal” the keep stuff in/out
Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Try reading Japanese without kanji and see how rough it get with all the homophones.
They have 3 alphabets and its called a “writing system” because of it.
magusfungus@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
There are no alphabets in Japanese language.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Yeah, kind of exactly the nightmare of a “writing system”. Its a dare to try to explain it in less than 10 words.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s not fair though as navy seals are named after the animal.
Also, you can use a word in different contexts, to seal wood and to seal something shut is similar actions
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Homophones are definitely not the thing that makes English hard. By that definition, Chinese is downright impossible language.
lengau@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Soldier, plug, stain, stamp, person, seal? I don’t get it.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Seal, seal, seal, seal, seal, seal.
laserm@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Soldier - navy seal Plug - to seal Stain - ?? Stamp - a seal (like Chinese imperial seal) Person - ? Seal - a seal
tourist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Stain” - Sealing paint
Person - Seal (Singer)
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Soldier, filter?, brush, was, “there use to be a graying tower alone on the sea, you became the light on the dark side of me”, seal.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
that’s not English, that’s pictures.
nroth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Have you tried any form of Chinese?
Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Possibly an issue due to simplified English.
Solider, some kind of plug?, applying some kind of weather proofing, wax stamp, that guy who did a single with Adamski, seal.
JillyB@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
They’re all seals. The bad part is that this is really only 2 different meanings. The soldier is a navy seal but that’s just named after the animal. The top middle is a seal to keep oil in a machine. The concept of sealing something applies to the the oil seal, the deck sealant, and the wax seal.
Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
And there’s nothing to stop Seal from becoming a seal and using a seal to seal a hole.
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
3 instances of sealing, 1 OG and 1 copycat, 1 unoriginal dude.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Chuckles in Estonian.
That’s cute.
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Rothe@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Monolingual native English speakers are constantly being surprised about basic universal linguistic concepts, while proceeding to think it is exceptional to the only language they are familiar with.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
At least those are not contradictory. Imagine being told that someone was dusting a room. Well that is removing small particles! But if you are dusting some icing sugar on a cake, you are adding it!
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Ba-ya-ya, ba-da-da-da-da-da, ba-ya-ya
baronvonj@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Soldier, orifice, varnish, wax stamp, smile, smile.
cholesterol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are homonyms/homophones more common in English? As a non-native speaker, I remember the vowel shift causing more trouble at first. Also, rules for shortening/combining words can be tricky. They’re/their is the obvious example. But then there’s won’t, where the apostrophe doesn’t simply substitute a letter in two words that work independently. And it’s/its is very confusing, as possessive is normally also marked with 's. Is/are is a whole new thing if your native language doesn’t distinguish.
alternategait@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If it helps, the possessive versions of other pronouns don’t have apostrophes (hers, his, theirs, yours), so it makes since that the possessive of it also doesn’t.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’ve never thought about won’t or ain’t not working like the other contractions. How funny.
Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Seals. Took me a minute.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This fails because the first one reads as “soldier” to most people, I’d say the vast majority of native English speakers would think “soldier”, not that he’s a Navy Seal. Especially because My first thought for a Navy Seal would be coming out of the ocean in a wet suit.
remon@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Seems like you got hung up on that. Order shouldn’t matter.
Same, but that made me assume the other ones have to seals as well and then the navy seal was right there.
I think it works well as a riddle.
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It got me too. Even when I got to the animal seal I just assumed it was there for something else and the meme made no sense.
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Order does matter. It comepletely ruined the flow. If i had already seen seal the animal, id be much quicker to land on seal for everything
Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It is a meme
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
You are a meme >:/
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
From left to right, top to bottom:
Soldier, grommet, paint,
Wax, person, seal.
tyler@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Top right is lacquering, not paint. But yeah I thought the same lol