Omg I'm stealing this

Is that because you were English?

Love the cropping on the B

Don't stress the asshole.

9 because you could also stress the entirety of asshole

I never said he licked my asshole

Stress all the words!

Tones is the word, and while Chinese tones are hard they're just part of the pronunciation of a word rather than anything context dependent. The English equivalent would be the stressed syllable in a word, and yes every language has something like this.

It does, it just depends on how it's coded. Like, take word order. If you have a case system with nominative, accusative, etc. your word order can be pretty free, you can move objects to the front of the sentence like 'food-ACC eat I-NOM'.

Remove the case system and it's simpler to encode the words, but word order becomes much more fixed.

All languages are equally complex, in theory at least, but where the complexity lies is different.

Try saying it louder.

• I never said he licked my asshole. <-- Someone else said it.
• I never said he licked my asshole. <-- I was accused of having said it; I've never said it.
• I never said he licked me asshole. <-- He licked my asshole, but I didn't talk about it.
• I never said he licked my asshole. <-- Someone licked my asshole, but it wasn't him.
• I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He did something with my asshole, but it wasn't licking.
• I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He licked an asshole, just not mine.
• I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He licked some part of me, just not my asshole.

Stressing each word gives a different meaning to the sentence and considering that there are 7 words, it means there are possible 7 meanings if you stress one word.

Take this helpful explanation from Gemini:

Very much so. Ever had a misunderstanding while texting someone? The vocal emphasis is missing.