• @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    142 years ago

    This reminds me of the one Christmas where both my parents got the other an expensive new coffee machine. I knew. I was the only one of their kids who knew. I said nothing. It was really funny watching them open on Christmas day.

  • @doingthestuff@lemmy.world
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    92 years ago

    This is where you add layers to the problem by giving away mangoes. You give Alice two more mangoes than you give Gunther, and the dog steals one but you still have twelve mangoes. How many mangoes did Gunther get?

    • Deconceptualist
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      Five.

      Started with 25, still have 12, need to account for 13.

      Dog took one, so that’s 12.

      If Alice and Gunther got the same number it would be 6 each.

      But she got 2 more than him, which is just a +1/-1 adjustment.

      So Alice got 7 and Gunther got 5.

  • @swnt@feddit.de
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    72 years ago

    Who writes mangoes instead of simply mangos?

    I never knew some people write it differently

    • radix
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      52 years ago

      I accept “mangoes” because of the English rule that nouns that end in a consonant followed by a vowel should be padded with another vowel (“e”) before the “-s”. Another example I can think of off the top of my head is “heroes”, not “heros”.

      However, I also accept “mangos” because it feels right. Wiktionary says “mango” is Portuguese, and I don’t know Portuguese, but at least in Spanish you don’t pluralize with “-es”, just “-s”.

      • @NeuronautML@lemmy.ml
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        Mango doesn’t exist in Portuguese. It’s written manga, a feminine gendered word, Portuguese being a gendered language.

        Plural mangas. Doesn’t really help, but there’s your linguistic TIL.

        • radix
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          22 years ago

          My bad. Yeah, it’s interesting that we don’t seem to know why English calls it “mango” when every other language calls it “manga” or something else ending with the “-a”.

          • @NeuronautML@lemmy.ml
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            42 years ago

            A lot of words in English are mispronounced/misheard/misunderstood words of things that people from the UK didn’t recognize during their exploration eras, so they asked the locals and that’s what they told everyone it was. Eventually Aussies and Americans inherited these “mistakes”.

            By the time the error was found out everyone was calling it by the wrong name already, so it kinda stuck. Hell i speak Portuguese and when i speak in English i tend to say mangoes instead of mangas, even though the word mango came from the language i speak.

      • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        You can imagine having the mangoes very vividly, it will activate the same part of your brain that would be activated as if you had the mangoes

        • threelonmusketeers
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          32 years ago

          it will activate the same part of your greeting that would be

          The same part of my what?

          • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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            12 years ago

            Same part of your brain, sorry, when it’s late at night I don’t use speech to text and just use swiping, which is getting less accurate as I use speech to text more.

  • downpunxx
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    What would you do with 25 mangoes? Put em on that fucking train to Chicago, of course

  • Margot Robbie
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    62 years ago

    You can turn these mangos into man-gones pretty quickly if you eat them on their own or with some Tajin seasoning; alternatively, you can’t have too much mango habenero sauce around the house. (I will admit that it is too spicy for me sometimes).

    • @SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
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      32 years ago

      There’s also mango milkshake, which is amazing and will use up a lot of mangoes, same with mango lassi/smoothie, and mango cheesecake is underrated.

      I’m sure I can think of recipes for that amount of mangoes, living in a place where mangoes are very common in the summer and eaten a lot, it’s just not a big amount.

      You can also make mango parfait or salad.

  • ivanafterall
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    52 years ago

    Wait, so…what time is the train leaving New York City? We can figure this out!

    • @lugal@lemmy.ml
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      The train takes one person 3h. How long do 2 people need?

      This is tricky since 3 isn’t an even number but I’m sure you will handle this

    • Match!!
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      42 years ago

      Son: eats 1/5th of mangoes and brings 1/5th of the remaining amount to school

      Friend: eats half of the amount son brings to school