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I see Dud people!

@dgar That's like "War and Peace" if you take out all the names.

Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even.

@BackFromTheDud Mark Twain remarked that, if you removed every incidence of "Lo, behold, and it came to pass," from The Book Of Mormon, that book would be a pamphlet.

Pasquale

@BackFromTheDud @dgar or Icelandic sagas if you remove genealogy parts!

I see Dud people!

@pasqualeberesti Doesn't all mythology get a bit like that ? "I am A, son of B, grandson of C, brother of L, and cousin to K!"! @dgar

SnowshadowII :maple:

@dgar
Lol

you could make a similar meme for English. The thick book would rep. English and about two sheets of paper would ep. original English words.

OR you could make a meme where one thick book would rep. rules in the English language that have exceptions and one that shows no exce.....no wait that wouldn't work because the right side of the meme would be blank.๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ

Deej (they/them) :QueerRaccoon_BlackTrans: :v_enby: :v_pan:

@dgar Now do one for any Aussie tome that doesn't include all the syllables we don't pronounce ...

... wait, do we have "tomes" in Australian literature? I think the longest Australian book I read at school was Seven Little Australians. ๐Ÿคฃ

berndandeweg

@dgar or... English humor (left) and German humor (right)

berndandeweg

@dgar or... Ancient Greek warheroes (left) and Italian warheroes (right)

berndandeweg

@dgar or... handbook of the Dutch navy (left) and the Bolivian navy (right)

ghostdancer

@berndandeweg Once I heard the joke
"- Hey do you know that the 2nd thinnest book in the world is 100 years of British cooking!.
+ Which one is the thinnest?
- 100 years of German humour! "
๐Ÿ˜‰
@dgar

berndandeweg

@dgar or... Italian cuisine recipes (left) vs Dutch cuisine

Dillon

@dgar I tryed to speak it once or a time. I found out the only language I can speak was the one I know and a little bit of Spanglish

Dgar

@crazycool411
Every now and then I sit at the piano to see if I can play it.

Still canโ€™t play it.

Dillon

@dgar I know how you feel I'm like that on the guitar I just can't play anymore and I know it LOL

ook

@dgar as a french reader, I validate the joke.

Fedo ยถ

@dgar@aus.social as an Italian speaker, I love that some English speaker was bold enough to make this meme ๐ŸŒš

Altlanda Juristo

@dgar
Poto, kruฤ‰o, nigraj (Pot, kettle, black)

Du libroj: unu granda "Angla romano"; la alia tre malgranda "Angla romano sen la literoj kiujn oni ne parolas"

Two books: one big "English novel"; the other very small "English novel without the letters one does not pronounce"
Jeaux

@VioB
Itโ€™s very true in The South (U.S.)! We will lob off consonants at the end of a word like a butcher trims fat. But, we also use a lot of analogies to paint the picture, which adds way more words (and imagery) than necessary just to make a point. Our book is probably gonna be mostly pictures.๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ˜‚

Michael Thรฉriault

@dgar Wait, not exactly, itโ€™s (looking at my surname) only about a 33% reduction.

Kermode

@dgar
Ha ha! This so much! :-)
Reading is getting a bit easier, but writing french is hellish. I'm still doing baby steps in duolingo.

Elias Probst

@dgar how long until "tar" gets support for "french" as compression algorithm?

Irina

@dgar Spoken French is almost an isolating language now.

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