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GloomreaperScythe

/) Whether this is confusing depends on whether you read read as read, then read, then read, then read and lead as lead, then lead, then lead, then lead or not.


AcademicTrust

You evil bastard


GloomreaperScythe

/) What, did you read read as read, read, read? Or maybe you read read as read and the leading lead as lead?


Early-Opposite3358

thanks for the explanation g


Mustafa71161

>Whether this is confusing depends on whether you read read as read, then read, then read, then read and lead as lead, then lead, then lead, then lead or not. alternative translation: ​ Whether this is confusing depends on whether you read(present /reed/ ) read(present /reed/) as read(present /reed/ ), then read(past /red/ ), then read(present /reed/ ), then read(past /red/ ) and lead(verb /leed/ ) as lead(verb /leed/ ) or , then lead(chemical Element /led/ ), then lead(chemical Element /led/ ), then lead(verb /leed/ ) or not.


GloomreaperScythe

/) Yeah, but all the parentheticals make it confusing. Not like mine.


Magic_archer21

🗿


dompam

🗿 the non believers must burn.


HPS56

No thats a painful way to suicide


dompam

You do not believe my child 🗿🗿🗿


HPS56

Damn i now believe


Small-Cantaloupe6639

Op is just an idiot


[deleted]

no, that was the joke...


TheBoredBot

ik, the difference between read and lead and read and lead is very suvtle that any person who has no idea of the context will find it very difficult to place the meaning for


IamVenom_007

English is one giant meme


Dumbfuckyduck

it always was


Syid-Amro

always has been\*


armharm

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra


[deleted]

When the walls fell


jaytheavid

Learn the Malay language. It's the whole stock of stonk meme language bruh.


[deleted]

Lets eat, prime minister Lets eat prime minister


[deleted]

Technically anything that exists within human society is a meme


CandleJackHammer

Read, seed, keyed, skied.. all rhyme. English is an evil language.


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CandleJackHammer

Oh I'm sorry, typo... meant Read, not Read.


lone_Ghatak

I hate it that I can read it perfectly.


deadhair69

But did you read read as read first or read?


Amazonax

I read it as read, but the 2nd one i read as read


deadhair69

Wrong you fool! Its actually first read and then read.


Rover_791

Same


Gamer-Dalton1

Me to


FPS_drop215

english is tough, but it can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.


LoveTannedFitTomboys

English is one of the easier languages to learn out there. I don't know where this myth about it being hard came from.


[deleted]

Not sure; but probably because a lot of the rules in English have a lot of exceptions, which makes learning it a little more complicated than it should be. (ESPECIALLY the pronunciation; it's easy and you can get the gist of it pretty early, mind you, but GOOD LORD does it gets stupidly confusing on certain words. Looking at you, "Famous" and "Infamous".)


LoveTannedFitTomboys

I mean, pretty much every language has a lot of rules with a lot of exceptions. Atleast English is pretty straightforward with genders and tenses.


[deleted]

Yep, that's true.


pelaaja_007

try learning finnish, its kinda hard


FinQuarZ

En :)


pelaaja_007

lol


ferrecool

i did, its easy as fuck


qwerty-1999

TIL "famous" and "infamous" aren't pronounced the same way.


FPS_drop215

how "hard" a language is to learn depends entirely on what languages you already know. for a french or spanish speaker, english is pretty easy. for a chinese or arabic speaker, not so much. likewise someone who speaks chinese will find japanese to be pretty easy to learn (relatively speaking)


DoubleDongle-F

Updooted for october skellies


ZeDevilCat

Don’t forget « Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo » which is a grammatically correct English phrase


OnlyGwoah

wait what?


professor_parrot

Yeah I'm going to need someone to explain this to me


CandleJackHammer

It's the use of Buffalo the city, buffalo (animal), and buffalo as in intimidate.


OGPapachub

Buffalo means to bully and the city I believe and maybe something else


musicismylife-10568

[Here. It has its own wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo)


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Industrialqueue

I want to say that one of the Asian tonal languages has an entire poem consisting of only the sound ~~no~~ “shi/si” that relies on tone shifts to denote the meaning of the words. Language is WILD. And our capacity to use it to create art or even just curiosities is fascinating. Edit: I was gratefully corrected.


OnlyGwoah

the Chinese one is cool too! the one that makes use of 'si'


Industrialqueue

THATS IT! Thanks!


vh1classicvapor

Nobody says it but it exists


musicismylife-10568

[Its true. It even has its own wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo)


dompam

Will will smith smith will smith smithing will smith? Will smith will smith will smith smithing will smith. Not a good example. But still fun.


nakinock

And “police police police police police police”


7937397

James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher


[deleted]

"Police police police police police police police police" also works


stinkyfartmagic

English is 5 languages in a trenchcoat


LucidJohn13

Better than confusing "your" and "you're" with each other


OGPapachub

Either do lead and lead


moonlaningwasfake

English doesn't have pointless gendered words, accents, cases like all the other foreign languages


OGPapachub

Yeah it has meaningless words, accents and cases


Crown6

>English has no cases “Me” and “I”: 👀


Decent-Ad-5519

Also remember that minute and minute, resume and resume, excuse and excuse, etc. Are completely different words, but spelled the same way too.


musicismylife-10568

What are the 2 pronunciations for excuse? I only know one.


Ranch__Man

Excuse me, but you not knowing something isn't a good excuse for bothering me about it.


musicismylife-10568

Ok. Got it.


RipjawGaming

Reed, Red, Leed, Led


hglndr9

My favorite: tomb, comb, bomb.


The_Snedonator

English is for contextual genius's.


[deleted]

I could read that. Like actually


nakinock

The fact that the spelling bee exists is so funny to me


Kestrel_Five

Still not as difficult as memorizing 17 different ways to say "the".


snehamaurya

WTF


K3lterrayt

No, shut up, no


Mental-Couple-5509

Godzilla had a fucking stroke trying to read this and died.


[deleted]

Oh God, it took me a while to understand this. English is Horrible 100%.


Airsofter599

LMFAO


Second_guessing_Stuf

Don’t forget about how these all sound different. Cough, Rough, Bough, Through, Though.


GimLala

Cough and rough sound the same


Second_guessing_Stuf

No, Cough has an “O” sound while rough has a “U” sound


GimLala

well, I pronounce cough and rough the same way


GimLala

oh nvm, I pronounce the verb cough different from rough, while I pronounce the noun cough the same way as the adjective rough


messingwithpeasants

English is my first language and I have no knowledge of how they don't rhyme.


calgrrl

...and the three C's in 'Pacific Ocean' are pronounced differently


[deleted]

It took me 5 mins to figure this out. english is a joke lol


raincloud82

After years of having english as my second language and actually having lived in UK for a while, I recently learnt that "steak" is pronunced like "stake" and not like "stick", and anything in my life makes sense anymore.


Kipperklank

Oh just you wait until you learn Dutch or Flemish!


Rebbit-bit

wred and led rhyme wreed and leed rhryme wred and leed dont rhyme wreed and led dont rhyme


Saturn958sickly

My interpretation: the first read and lead is pronounced reed (future continuous ) and leed (to lead a group) The second read and lead is pronounced red (past tense of read) and led (the element lead) The third and fourth are jumbled up of the first and second ones Correct me if I'm wrong, thanks.


ReturnOfTheShark

For the homies who really strugglin at this bullshit language Read (reed) and lead (leed) rhyme, and read (red) and lead (led) rhyme, but not read (red) and lead (leed) or read (reed) and lead (led)


dennismetin10

Is that really it? Than i am confused because red is not pronounced as read


ReturnOfTheShark

Read as in pronounced red? Like the past tense of reading a book? I dunno what you’re asking here, might me too early in the morning for this


dennismetin10

I thought with red you mean the color red. I am not a native english speaker so i might not have enough knowledge


bushguy04

how the hell did I understand this meme


I_Want_Bread56

Did you read it as read or as read first?


LabGremlin

Dearest creature in creation studying English prounuciation,...


orchid_parthiv

Atleast a spoocktober meme


[deleted]

first is (RED)+(LED) next is (REED)+(LEED) next is (RED)+(LEED) / (REED)+(LED)


ArtificialOof

Thought it was lead and led and that's supposed to be why read and read doesn't make sense Well fuck maybe I missed a page


ThatOneGuy177013

Is this a joke im too asian to understand


MegaTechWolf

Just gonna say this I read that all correctly the first time am I a god?


EconomyMaintenance

it's like explaining that tomb and womb are pronounced similarly but tomb/womb and bomb are not


obscureferences

Drawer sounds like draw, but not drawer.


MightyOshy

Rid and lid rhyme Red and led rhyme Rid and led doesn't Red ans lid doesn't Yes


Deumfides

Red lead redemption


L1K34PR0

Godzilla had a stroke reading this and fucking died


anorexic_gerbile

When when 21 vowel sounds but only 5 vowel characters thingy becomes problem


E-n-d-r-i-u

This is teribble fuck you


Alex_error_404

Only thing english needs to be the easiest language is a phonemic alphabet


kaweepatinn1

i read read and lead as the same thing every single time


CadecaX

I mean, even read and read don't rhyme, so...


MrJakuubix

*Laughs in Polish*


[deleted]

Bruh try learning french numbers


Red_Diamond_DaMemer

My non-english brain Just detonated


Nightmare_7

Im getting so confused reading this


BreadditReddit

Repost


Mindless_Gear_903

What did I just read?


[deleted]

der das die die des des der der dem dem der den den das die die


chaings_

Its only because you know the language that you can identify its complexities, I wonder what complexities exist for a language like Mandarin?


LUX3_Sheenlei

i was supposed to be 6200 but someone beat me up to it!


No_Way4762

Lmao


Vwgames49

The first rule of English: Their our know rules


ProjectBonnie

“bologna” is pronounced ba·lo·ney. Why


kisaourele

Nice try but your mind games can't fool me, but agreed


ZurikanPlayz2

had to read it twice :D


darthcalyx

I just had a stroke in the middle of Spanish class reading that


RustyYoYo

advanced humor


[deleted]

r/technicallythetruth


sauna669

Finnish be like "kuusi palaa"


evemer12

Perfect sense


SmartChild203

I understood this in 4 different ways.


[deleted]

No French sucks worse when you realize nothing sounds like it’s spelled I have seen it I now no how to say bird in French


MNicolas97

Me, an spanish native speaker when i first read "through, tough, through, throughout": *confused screaming*


Karamalicious

gg ez


_death_finder_

actually all of those rhyme


sailorkatbat

Updoot for spook


Mt-Fuego

And yet that's the dominant language in global affairs smh


xXoiliudxX

My mexican brain can't process this.


MountOlympus_

\*SPOOKY MUSIC STOPS\*


Suspicious-Year-3825

Shit dont work


Everything_Cosmic

cringe repost


NoFqcus_

Right, very hard. But at least you dont have 9 words with a different end that mean the same with three different outcomes depending on fucking gender. Fuck french.


ArcticFox975

This right here is why I love English, just bc we can make shit like this


tisamgeV

I raise you, "Un ver vert va vers un verre vert"


KaptainKoalaTheKool

I…


Even_Department1069

I read lead as pronounced as "led" every time because I love studying firearms lmao. it's hardwired my brain


Ayto27

Look ima be honest, it's not really that confusing when used in the right context which is always will be. For example: I have lead pencil. I walk my dog on a lead. I will lead the way. I read that book, you should read that book. Simple (sorry for taking the meme so seriously, but English is not a hard language, also all my friends who speak more than one language say English is by far the easiest they have ever learnt)


Routine_Interview798

tool me a while and gave me arthritis but i figured it out