• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I’m having a hard time.

    American when the metric tonne of Reese’s peanutbutter cups, caramel chocolate chip…streusel?, and oreo cookies…falls?

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    Why do so many Europeans seem to think the whole country is Texas?

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      10 months ago

      I imagine the same reason so many Americans think of the UK as just London, or France as just Paris. I don’t know what that reason is, but I imagine it’s probably the same reason.

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        Honestly I can’t get Wiltshire out of my head. Rhotal rs? What? They sound like they’re from New England until they say something that makes my brain twist. I love it.

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      That’s not true America is Texas, Florida (if it involves alligators or trans-hatred), California, Las Vegas and New York. Everything else is irrelevant.

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        10 months ago

        Massachusetts is literally the most significant state. It’s a forest with health care. We’re basically elves.

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      To contain, include, incorporate. To abstain really doesn’t make sense in this context. That abstain meaning I think uses the “return to natural state” meaning of ent- (number 1). Think “unhold” in the sense of “cease to hold a position”, that’s “to abstain”, the contain one… I’m not 100% but I think it’s number 6: A thing is furnished such that the adjective becomes true. The cookie is enholden with chocolate chips.

      karamellsirus is a misspelling, Karamellsirup should be obvious. crunshies, too, is a misspelt crunchies. Only one that shouldn’t be recognisable is Regenbogenstreusel, rainbow sprinkles. Like on doughnuts.

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        The reflexive form “sich enthalten” means to abstain, without the reflexive pronoun it always means “to contain”

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          On retrospective that’s pretty damn obvious.