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stpshrt @lemmy.world

4w ago

You might want to see this

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hydration9806 @lemmy.ml

4w ago

You might want to see this

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i'll never stop being mystified by the fact that we have a 5 letter word that's pronounced exactly the same as the first letter of the word
- queueing
  Oh. Great. 5 vowels in a row. The language needed that.
  
  Blame the French.
  
  Slovak has the word for ice cream which is zmzrlina with 5 consonants in a row
  
  there's always an xkcd
  
  in a row
  Queueing, even.
  
  I can add Wrzeszcz for perspective. It may not be in a row, but no 8 letter word should have 3 zs
  
  Basically the opposite of Polish
- Queue, que, cue
  
  ¿que?
  
  q
  
  kew
  
  Bee, sea, jay, oh, pee, queue, tea, you, why, zed.

Why on earth would we want to see this?!

Benadryl Queuecumberpatch
- Bendydick Cuminhersnatch

“This could have been an email.”

Oh dear, how many times "you might want to see this" needed unsee juice after that

This feels like an indictment of passive language really. I like my language like I like my tigers, passive and sleepy.

M’am?
- The ' is for a'.
  
  But then you need another ' for d!
  M''am
  
  Bring your own BBBQ beer
- ma'am says https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ma'am

Come take a look at this cliche - ding

Could've been better without the fourth panel, I feel.
- I think if you just remove her speech balloon, it works:
  
  I think even "I said you might want to!" is too much. It smacks of a shoddy American sitcom where they say these non-jokes to cue the canned laughter. If they insist on having four panels, they could have a third panel with the two going through some security rigmarole, maybe stick in a few subtle visual jokes.
- shift 1,2,3 to 2,3,4 and have 1 as an establishing shot of the nsa hq to make the setup clearer. right now it's like you see the punchline, then an extra panel, then go back to see what was the big deal and realize somewhere in the background it says nsa hq.
  
  Well I did see the "NSA Headquarters" sign but I admit it'd be weird to have that on the wall in the office of the madam who might want to see things!

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