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  • Re: Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus

    From Bice@21:1/5 to tednolan on Tue Apr 30 12:29:03 2024
    On 27 Apr 2024 02:31:46 GMT, [email protected] (Ted Nolan
    <tednolan>) wrote:

    In article <v0hisp$4d0$[email protected]>,
    Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 4/26/2024 4:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
       https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26

    Yup, English is hard for the native born.  I pity people who learned
    English not immersed in the culture.

    Many years ago I predicted that there much be a class of German
    language joke predicated on ambiguity in reading that language's >>agglutinated words.

    A native speaker in the group confirmed that I was correct.

    Consider breaking the word 'therapist' at a line end.

    pt


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joIr6c-jj4Y


    I thought that YouTube clip was going to be the Saturday Night Live
    Jeopardy sketch where Sean Connary takes "the rapists" for 200:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hElOag-1a0k

    https://www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNewYork/comments/1346z6z/every_time_sean_connery_misread_the_board_on/

    -- Bob

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