• Rose
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      71 month ago

      I’ve seen Breaking Bad. This is just what the memes look like in Mexico.

      • go $fsck yourself
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        21 month ago

        If that is the case, then you’re using the wrong filter. I’ve used practically every one of them available and I’ve never run into that issue.

    • IndiBrony
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      121 month ago

      M - Mundane

      T - Taxing

      W - What

      T - The

      F - Fuck

      S - Serene

      S - …oh Shit…

    • Skua
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      321 month ago

      The post was clearly written sometime in the 14th century when the UU digraph had become widespread but the U-V distinction had not. No wonder it is so yellowed, I’d say it’s actually in great condition for its age

      • Tomtits
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        61 month ago

        It might have been dabbed with a used teabag to give the impression that’s it’s older than it is

    • Smee
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      111 month ago

      Why do people say double “U” when they mean a double “V”?

      • Skua
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        121 month ago

        There was no distinction between V and U when W first started being used. They were considered the same letter, with V just being the style for writing it at the start of words (like that long S that looks like an f). So you would write “have” as haue and “upon” as vpon.

        When it was representing a consonant in classical Latin, it sounded like a modern English W. So the famous veni vidi vici - I came, I saw, I conquered - was pronounced more like wenee weedee weekee.

        Eventually the V sound started to emerge in some places where Latin and its descendants had used that W sound before, and people started treating the two forms as different letters. By this point the W was already in widespread use, though, so whatever people already called it had a good chance of sticking

      • @Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        In French (and no doubt countless other languages) it is ‘double v’. So to answer your question: The English language is flawed and for most people, it’s too jarring to correct it

  • NoneOfUrBusiness
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    51 month ago

    The OOP must be Laughing My Nuts Off at our inability to comprehend their machinations.