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'Choose' rhymes with 'lose'? I mean c'mon, someone did that shit on purpose 👀

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[–] NorthWestWind 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

May as well combine words with the same pronunciation into one word and call it Simplified English (/s)

Honestly tho, this is one of the features of Simplified Chinese, which created the infamous "fuck vegetables" (干菜类).

It's meant to say "dried vegetables" (乾菜類 in TC), but 乾→干. Meanwhile, there exists 幹→干 as well, which means "fuck".

fuck vegetables

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

So this is where I find cucumber?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck as in curse or as an action?

[–] NorthWestWind 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Used in this context? Action. But it can mean both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Even better :D