I'm definitely giggling

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where there’s smork there’s fier.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Foir

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  • EpeeGnome@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How alaming!

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• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whoa-oh black Betty

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    alamdalam

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• seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  smorks your alarm

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You know what? Screw you!

    Unsmorks your alam

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  • M137@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How did you fail at that? You had to get two words correct but managed to not do it, shame on you.

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• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This probably came from a country with transliterations that don’t line up very well in English. Like Japanese doesn’t have an English r, so one of the ways they do it is to elongate a vowel and alarm would become alaamu. But sometimes they have a long vowel with no r, like smoke is sumo-oku.

  When they go to write in English it’s not clear whether that long vowel represents an r or not, and they chose to add it in smoke and drop it in alarm. I still run across a smorking room from time to time.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay but why is it inherently funny though?

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• TomMasz@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why is this so funny?

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  • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Engrish

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• bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This makes perfect sense in Leeds

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  • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Someone in Hull told me that they had a door-to-door salesman selling “smirk alarms”.

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    • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ehrmagerd!

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    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some years back, there was a “toad trail” in Hull - one of those things where there’s 100 sculptures installed around the city, each painted by a different artist, school or group.

      Anyway, the vowel shift in Hull that turns “smoke” into “smirk” have us the joyous sentence:

      “I’m off into town to go and see all the brightly coloured turds”

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whoa Black Betty, Smork Alam

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Relax, they’re not talking about us. It’s a false alarm.”

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I saw a “NO SMORKING” sign on Engrish dot com circa 2001 or so

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• NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  This is the picture that randomly pops into my head and makes me start cry laughing no matter what I’m doing. It just gets me.

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• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That isn’t smork it’s stream, stream from the streamed clams we’re having

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• Klear@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Alam go face

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i just wanna put a useless switch in there

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