If y'all ain't get the gist of it y'ain't thunk it thru enuff.

I'm a fan of the phrase "before was was was, was was is""

Reading that gave me a tough hiccough.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

A real English sentence.

No. It's shit

Careful, though: reading (past tense of 'to read') doesn't rhyme with Reading (place name)

I feel like I walked on a rake after a perfect catwalk reading you. Love it.

Lol I did get it immediately after, but my instant thought was wait, read and lead don't rhyme?

"flammable" and "inflammable" mean the same thing

Why can I be overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but not perfectly adequately whelmed?

'Jam' can mean a fruit preserve, to play music, a stuck door, traffic, to cram something into something else, a tense situation, or to block a radio signal. All spelled and pronounced the same.

the Midwest is in the Eastern US.

This explains some of my US geography confusion over the years...

the Midwest is in the Eastern US.

That actually makes sense because it's from the point of view of Europe.

In Italian we also have a similar phrase: "Cos'è che è?"

Luckily, it's only in spoken language because it's considered a bit "wrong".

But what the fuck is that, bro?

Those three are even all from the old vocabulary, they all have German cognates: zäh, durch, Teig

Or that people in different parts of the world say/spell words differently and we inconsistently applied it:

Kernel and Colonel were the same rank but we took the pronunciation of the first and the spelling of the latter.

But let's only do it in some English speaking countries and not others! I am joking, but this is one of the reasons why American English has diverged from British English.

Relevant xkcd:

Speling Reeforma

Time de inimigos do inglês

I kind of like how it’s ever changing and evolving, I know that sours some people’s pickles but I think it’s neat. I like how it incorporates and is built on so many other languages. I enjoyed reading a short story posted here a while ago that progressively walked backwards in time as a language and it was really neat to me. I’m an idiot though so most other languages probably do this also.

Do u happen to speak german? I’m studying it rn and it’s making me very grateful we live in an English speaking world :/

"You said you were a great bass player!"

Me struggling to hold onto a huge wet slippery fish "Grimmie a second, geez!"

i still remember the best joke i told my entire time in college. a professor was talking about turnpikes and asked if anyone knew what a pike was, with a specific answer in mind..

well, i knew what a pike was

worst part was i played DnD, i knew exactly what he was asking. i just saw a low hanging fruit and an opportunity to be a smartass and you really can't set me up like that.

A Fish

That's actually spelled 'ghoti'.

Hes policemanning

To call any language shit immediately discredits any opinion on it you might have

do u mean bejslajn or baseliin?

until youre being eaten alive by acid

Phuck ophph

/ˈvæ.sə.lin/

Va-seh-leen

You pronounce it like: “petroleum jelly rots the latex within 30 seconds”.

I pronounce vaseline vase-line just to be consistent with baseline.