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King of Foolians posted:Even if the potato story really happened (it didn't), I don't understand what the guy was planning to accomplish. In the story his girlfriend's family had the exact reaction he was expecting and his version of 'crap I kept digging myself deeper' just makes him look dumb. A better STDH would be claiming that he really did convince them he didn't know what potatoes were and hilarity ensuing. quote:My girlfriend (who let me tell you is only my 2nd girlfriend of all time) said I am "invited to dinner" with her and her parents. I was very aghast, nervous, and bashful to be invited to such a situation. But I knew it must be done. "I was very aghast [...] to be invited to such a situation [dinner with girlfriend's parents]" You know it's fake because you can imagine it being read by someone who thinks that being an eloquent story teller means using words and turns of phrases that make no sense like "invited to such a situation". Gadzooks! how could a rapscallion such as myself find himself in such a perilous situation as this? Mayhap a bit of a jest might loosen their wickets.
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YA BOY ETHAN COUCH posted:"I was very aghast [...] to be invited to such a situation [dinner with girlfriend's parents]" Nah some nerds really talk like that. It's painful to hear. Totally agree that it's fake, though.
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It reads less like someone trying to sound extra eloquent and therefore smart, and much more like someone whose first language wasn't English. There is too much overuse of phrases like "let me tell you" and a few too many grammatical errors. Someone repeating "let me tell you" as much as the writer did, tells me it's a fallback phrase because they aren't sure how to convey whatever it is they are trying to convey, and thus just repeat the same phrase because it's familiar to them.
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life is killing me posted:It reads less like someone trying to sound extra eloquent and therefore smart, and much more like someone whose first language wasn't English. There is too much overuse of phrases like "let me tell you" and a few too many grammatical errors. Someone repeating "let me tell you" as much as the writer did, tells me it's a fallback phrase because they aren't sure how to convey whatever it is they are trying to convey, and thus just repeat the same phrase because it's familiar to them. I think you overestimate the writing ability of many native English speakers. I can definitely believe that the story was written by a native speaker.
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Post Your Favorite (or Request): Coldly Compiled Lists › shit_that_didnt_happen.txt: become known to them as a person who is amusing
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 So the friend I mentioned some pages ago has now set up a GoFundMe for her and her boys. $30,000, she says that’s how much Baby Daddy has owed throughout the years. She wants a good life for her sons and she can’t pay and is forced to live with her father. She claims her kids have a bunch of health problems (they have some but not as many as she claims and their bills are paid automatically except, she tells me, the dentist---despite claiming right in the description "medical bills") and one might need to go to St. Louis to be treated although I don’t know why Kansas City wouldn’t have anyone. I have never seen her oldest have seizures and I've known him since he was born. These apparently started when I just left KC. She says she can’t raise the boys on her own, despite always getting promotions and raises. She does live with her dad, who pays for a lot of stuff. Her kids have plenty of toys, home-cooked meals, good social lives and are pretty happy kids considering they HAVE had some hardships in life. But not donate $30,000 hardships. Edited: Decided to post screen grab instead of linking to the page. bean_shadow has a new favorite as of 14:23 on Feb 7, 2017 |
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Feb 7, 2017 12:03
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Dejawesp posted:
I have a feeling this is some dude writing a parody of STDH, but picking something so stupid that it's like a STDH of STDH. So it's basically STDH^2.
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LanceHunter posted:I have a feeling this is some dude writing a parody of STDH, but picking something so stupid that it's like a STDH of STDH. Yeah some guy wrote it and threw it out there like a hand grenade and every single MRI jumped on it as an example of how crazy the modern feminist is.
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Ytlaya posted:I think you overestimate the writing ability of many native English speakers. I can definitely believe that the story was written by a native speaker. True, perhaps it's just silly to think that someone who is a native English speaker should be able to write better than a non-native English speaker
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Dejawesp posted:
Sources report they were able to prove he was imagining sex with the individual because of his facial expression 
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YA BOY ETHAN COUCH posted:Sources report they were able to prove he was imagining sex with the individual because of his facial expression
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More like oldpantless.
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I like how that one's subtle racism pushes the responsibility off on the reader by forcing them to make the assumption about what race the imaginary husband must be
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life is killing me posted:I like how that one's subtle racism pushes the responsibility off on the reader by forcing them to make the assumption about what race the imaginary husband must be Scooby Doo
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Hoover Dam posted:Scooby Doo 
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life is killing me posted:I like how that one's subtle racism pushes the responsibility off on the reader by forcing them to make the assumption about what race the imaginary husband must be Subtle?
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life is killing me posted:I like how that one's subtle racism pushes the responsibility off on the reader by forcing them to make the assumption about what race the imaginary husband must be I have no idea what this could be referring to. I can only think of Scooby Doo and that makes no sense as it is.
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Garrand posted:I have no idea what this could be referring to. I can only think of Scooby Doo and that makes no sense as it is. Use your imaginasian
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oldpainless posted:Use your imaginasian 
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Garrand posted:I have no idea what this could be referring to. I can only think of Scooby Doo and that makes no sense as it is. one part of japanese stereotypes in america is mixing up R's and L's while speaking english
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Feb 8, 2017 03:00
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 This is my favorite thing that didn't happen
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It's a stereotype for Chinese pronunciation as well, and I imagine it would extend to other east Asians as well. I had one guy try to explain to me that Chinese people pronounce their Rs as Ls and Japanese people pronounce their Ls as Rs and that's how you tell the difference. Most languages have subtle differences between the way they pronounce their Ls and Rs and how separate they are. Even in native English speakers it takes a long time to get it down right - you don't get sent to a speech therapist until you're saying "woad" for "road" etc at the age of seven. The th sounds are also difficult (and in some places pronouncing th as f or d is a class or regional signifier). I've had ESL friends say that the th sound is one of the most distinctive parts of English, so the stereotype of an English speaker is someone lisping all the time. ESL speakers will often approximate it with D, T, S or Z until they get it down. Anyway getting a room full of grade one kids to do the "red letter yellow letter" tongue twister is hilarious.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:It's a stereotype for Chinese pronunciation as well, and I imagine it would extend to other east Asians as well. I had one guy try to explain to me that Chinese people pronounce their Rs as Ls and Japanese people pronounce their Ls as Rs and that's how you tell the difference. Yeah, it's because Japanese and Korean (idk specifically about Chinese) have a sound that's somewhere between "l" and "r." Also, fun fact, the only other major Indo-European languages I can think of that have the "th" sound are Welsh, Icelandic, and Castilian Spanish
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:Yeah, it's because Japanese and Korean (idk specifically about Chinese) have a sound that's somewhere between "l" and "r." Also, fun fact, the only other major Indo-European languages I can think of that have the "th" sound are Welsh, Icelandic, and Castilian Spanish Dunno about the Euro side of that, but Bengali has a specific "th" letter, so I assume Hindi does too.
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hyperhazard posted:Dunno about the Euro side of that, but Bengali has a specific "th" letter, so I assume Hindi does too. Is it pronounced the same as in English (i.e., [θ])? I don't think Hindi does, the sound transliterated as "th" is generally an aspirated unvoiced dental stop.
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It shouldn't be an issue with Chinese, which has both "r" and "l" sounds. Indiscriminate discrimination against Asians. 
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I was more seeing that whole thing as not racist, but not caring enough to lift his head from between her legs/giving her a hummer.
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oldpainless posted:Use your imaginasian haha but yeah, it's an obvious racist gab against asians. Might as well sprinkle some little dick jokes.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:It's a stereotype for Chinese pronunciation as well, and I imagine it would extend to other east Asians as well. I had one guy try to explain to me that Chinese people pronounce their Rs as Ls and Japanese people pronounce their Ls as Rs and that's how you tell the difference. It's dumb for Chinese since it has distinct r and l sounds in most dialects, and the beijing dialect specifically has a copious amount of "r" sounds added to every word. The area I'm in they do "n" as "l" and sometimes "h" as "f", though.
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H is also very fun. It can be a K or an F and even in English you can get people arguing about "a history" vs "an history"
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It's a history lesson. It's an 'istory lesson. It depends on how you say it.
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:Is it pronounced the same as in English (i.e., [θ])? I don't think Hindi does, the sound transliterated as "th" is generally an aspirated unvoiced dental stop. That's a great question that I don't have an answer to. I'm 100% going off of my husband's name, which has a soft "th" (almost like a mix between "t" and "th"). His relatives in India can pronounce it better than either of us can.
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When I first read the potato story I was like "who is this stupid bullshit supposed to fool?" but it cracks me up now for how it spirals out of control.
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The General posted:It's a history lesson. whatever, eliza doolittle.
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Dejawesp posted:Yeah some guy wrote it and threw it out there like a hand grenade and every single MRI jumped on it as an example of how crazy the modern feminist is. What's really crazy is how close to plausible this is for people to believe it. It's just close enough to pass casual muster.
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The General posted:It's a history lesson. It's awful 'ot and awful 'eavy. It's hawful hot and hawful heavy.
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Khazar-khum posted:What's really crazy is how close to plausible this is for people to believe it. It's just close enough to pass casual muster. In what bizarre universe is that even remotely plausible?
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 No, they didn't.  No.  Yeah, I'm pretty sure I could go en pointe for like, two seconds/long enough to snap photograph too. Especially if I was holding onto a doorknob. GreenMetalSun has a new favorite as of 03:59 on Feb 10, 2017 |
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