Things I find mildly entertaining 

"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish) 05/12/2017 at 13:19 • Filed to: I'm bored

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Different contractions for the same phrase. “It isn’t”, or “It’s not”. Two different ways of saying “It is not”.

smobgirl > gmctavish needs more space 05/12/2017 at 13:24

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It snot.

Ash78, voting early and often > gmctavish needs more space 05/12/2017 at 13:25

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‘ T ’ ain ’ t is the only word I can think of that requires three apostrophes and also refers to your perianal region.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > gmctavish needs more space 05/12/2017 at 13:27

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Also “’tisn’t”, which is a British contraction of a contraction.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > gmctavish needs more space 05/12/2017 at 13:31

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The funny thing is, the contractions are only a stroke of the spacebar shorter.

gmctavish needs more space > Ash78, voting early and often 05/12/2017 at 13:32

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That’s a prime example of why I love/hate English

gmctavish needs more space > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/12/2017 at 13:32

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Contractions of contractions are great too

Ash78, voting early and often > gmctavish needs more space 05/12/2017 at 13:34

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Like “Why does ‘anger’ have a hard G, but all similar words are soft G?”

Honeybunchesofgoats > gmctavish needs more space 05/12/2017 at 13:38

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“If you had not done that, then we would not have had to have this discussion, but since you have, we have to have it.”

I once said something like that to a coworker and quickly became distracted by how beautifully stupid this language is.

Nibbles > Ash78, voting early and often 05/12/2017 at 16:56

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Like “Why is Gift a hard G and GIF is soft?”

Ash78, voting early and often > Nibbles 05/12/2017 at 17:33

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Choosy moms choose GIF! (I’ve used GIF longer than any other image format and have always used hard G...until now)