soldier ### brush stamp man seal?
Real easy
Submitted 1 year ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to memes@sopuli.xyz
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blinfabian@feddit.nl 1 year ago
remon@ani.social 1 year ago
They are all seals.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 1 year ago
Thanks. English first language here and it went right over my head. But then the first was a soldier to me.
waz@feddit.uk 1 year 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?)
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Technically, Seal the singer is also an animal.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Valve seal in an engine.
jam12705@lemmy.world 1 year ago
#2 is an engine valve stem seal
thymos@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Stable genius
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
The wax seal doesn’t work that way - the stamp should be inverted.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Why use many word when one word do trick?
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Too many words. Could you, like, narrow that down?
Iceman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Words<word
thewitchslayer@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
At most you’re saving a miniscule amount of time. What are you going to do with all this time?
davitz@lemmy.ca 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
There are no alphabets in Japanese language.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Homophones are definitely not the thing that makes English hard. By that definition, Chinese is downright impossible language.
lengau@midwest.social 1 year ago
Soldier, plug, stain, stamp, person, seal? I don’t get it.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Seal, seal, seal, seal, seal, seal.
laserm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Soldier - navy seal Plug - to seal Stain - ?? Stamp - a seal (like Chinese imperial seal) Person - ? Seal - a seal
tourist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Stain” - Sealing paint
Person - Seal (Singer)
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year ago
that’s not English, that’s pictures.
nroth@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Have you tried any form of Chinese?
Codpiece@feddit.uk 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
And there’s nothing to stop Seal from becoming a seal and using a seal to seal a hole.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
3 instances of sealing, 1 OG and 1 copycat, 1 unoriginal dude.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Chuckles in Estonian.
That’s cute.
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Rothe@piefed.social 1 year 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 1 year ago
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 1 year 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 1 year ago
Ba-ya-ya, ba-da-da-da-da-da, ba-ya-ya
baronvonj@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Soldier, orifice, varnish, wax stamp, smile, smile.
cholesterol@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’ve never thought about won’t or ain’t not working like the other contractions. How funny.
Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Seals. Took me a minute.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
It is a meme
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 year ago
You are a meme >:/
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
From left to right, top to bottom:
Soldier, grommet, paint,
Wax, person, seal.
tyler@programming.dev 1 year ago
Top right is lacquering, not paint. But yeah I thought the same lol