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ummthatguy 51 points 3 years ago

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ininewcrow 14 points 3 years ago

Uh oh ..... We in deep shit ... Deep Shit Nine

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PrinceWith999Enemies 28 points 3 years ago

If you actually talk to them, you’ll see It’s pronounced Bri’ish. They’ve been hiding their T since that unfortunate incident in Boston Harbor.

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Anticorp 7 points 3 years ago

So is it pronounced 'orch?

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BeardedGingerWonder 9 points 3 years ago

No, Bri'ish, did you not see what they wrote?

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stangel 26 points 3 years ago

Electric torch has kind of a "horseless carriage" feel to it, no?

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The_Picard_Maneuver 15 points 3 years ago

I regularly drive my horseless carriage to see moving pictures, whenever I receive a coupon via electric mail.

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samus12345 12 points 3 years ago

This is how we would talk if English were more like German. Why invent new words when we can just combine old ones? Glove = hand shoe, turtle = shield toad, raccoon = wash bear, etc.

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aeronmelon 5 points 3 years ago

This is why German words have ten syllables?

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samus12345 4 points 3 years ago

Yeah, pretty much, they just mash a bunch of words together.

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The_Picard_Maneuver 5 points 3 years ago

Lol, these are great. I want more.

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samus12345 4 points 3 years ago

One interesting one is porcupine = spine pig. The English word means the same thing, but latin-based stead of germanic.

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Psaldorn 5 points 3 years ago

Car is short for carriage

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Delphia 16 points 3 years ago

There is nothing more American than telling the English how the English language should work.

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misophist 13 points 3 years ago

The last time I argued this with an American, they correctly claimed that they defeated us in combat and claimed our language as their own, so it's kinda theirs now. There's no valid argument against it, so I had to concede defeat.

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rottingleaf 1 point 3 years ago

Their independent part of it is theirs, and the metropolitan isn't, just like with territory. That's the way said analogy would work.

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Telodzrum 1 point 3 years ago

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wjrii 6 points 3 years ago

And well we should. Honestly, a “torch?” For the electric light that you could easily flash on and off if you wanted or wave around to flash in someone’s eyes?

WHERE IS THE FIRE, NIGEL?!?!? THERE’S NO FIRE!

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charonn0 3 points 3 years ago

Wouldn't that technically be a French thing?

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Telodzrum 2 points 3 years ago

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thundermoose 9 points 3 years ago

I can hear René Auberjonois in that line

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aeronmelon 5 points 3 years ago

crosses arms while staring seductively

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ummthatguy 5 points 3 years ago

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teft 7 points 3 years ago

Notice how Morn isn't included. He'd be flooding the group chat with his banter.

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morrowind 7 points 3 years ago

Torches all the way, if I wanted flashing lights I'd become a cop

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PrinceWith999Enemies 11 points 3 years ago

There! Are! Four! Flashing! Lights!

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ericisshort 10 points 3 years ago

You're all misunderstanding the etymology. It's called a flashlight because it was named after its inventor, Barry Allen.

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radix 1 point 3 years ago

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casmael 6 points 3 years ago

*bri’ish

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