Open Menu
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
lotide
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
Login

It's important to read it right

⁨377⁩ ⁨likes⁩

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/b53a615b-c722-4847-8749-7c9084b9e6c4.jpeg

source

Comments

Sort:hotnewtop
  • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is a quality anti-meme.

    source
    • TurboDiesel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Right? I was very confused until I saw where I was. Good shitpost.

      source
  • ADonkeyBrainedFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I spent too long trying to figure out what the message was lmao

    source
    • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll be honest that it got me too. Which is why I had to share it.

      source
      • CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m still failing at understanding…

        source
        • -> View More Comments
  • Tobin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Could someone explain this to me?

    source
    • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There is no joke. The “H” and “S” are silent in the name Rhode Island.

      source
      • irmoz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Is that… really it? Just a complaint about silent letters, straight from someone’s first English class?

        source
        • -> View More Comments
      • stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Also it rhymes. I think…

        source
      • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        rhode island is the joke

        source
        • -> View More Comments
    • match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There is a common joke: “I live in Spain but the S is silent.” This is an anti joke variant of that

      source
      • Tobin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ah okay, thanks!

        source
  • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Rode eyeland

    source
    • angrymouse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why english?
      Some years ago when I was learning english I was very worried about my accent, after years and more advanced English I just don’t fucking care, cause seems nobody fucking cares about this language quality anyway. You write things and read like you fucking want.

      source
      • skulblaka@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You write things and read like you fucking want

        That's the last lesson you have to learn before becoming fluent in English, especially American English. If you put a Cajun, a Yankee, a Brit and an Australian in the same room, despite all four of them allegedly speaking the same language you'll be lucky to communicate more than a sentence or two between the lot of them.

        There are certain rules to be followed in English but a solid 45% or more of our "rules" are more like "subtext" and can be freely ignored, changed, or customized based on location and current company.

        As for the "Why, English?" that's because English is a stolen mishmash hodgepodge of 14 different languages where we took the cool and useful words and bastardized them into unrecognizability. English more than any other is a patchwork language. We didn't invent shit, merely reappropriated other people's words in true classic English fashion.

        source
    • Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Rahode is land

      source
    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      archenemies of r-hode iceland

      source
    • BarelyOriginal@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Rood Eiland

      source
  • librechad@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Rode Iland

    source
  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bruh maybe I’m dumb.

    source
  • spyke@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It used to be called Rhide Island until grandma’s visit in 1935…

    source
  • VantaBrandon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Rahode Issland

    source
  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And it’s not an island.

    source
    • Ragincloo@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think originally it was rhode island and Providence plantations. Rhode island was Newport (island) and the plantations were providence, kings, and kent. But yeah Rhode island referred to the actual island. Then it became a state and eventually dropped half its name

      source
  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Silent letters are so extravegant.

    source
    • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Luxury letters

      source
  • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pffft imagine naming a place after a chicken 😂

    source