Tug to Dad JokesEnglish · 6 hours agoIf a 1 L lama is a holy man and a 2 L llama is an animal, what is a 3L lllama?message-squaremessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up122arrow-down1message-squareIf a 1 L lama is a holy man and a 2 L llama is an animal, what is a 3L lllama?Tug to Dad JokesEnglish · 6 hours agomessage-square21linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTugOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·5 hours agoThe residents of the greater Boston area have an accent when -ar is pronounced -ah. So a car is a cah.
minus-squareDiddlydee@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 hours agoCar isn’t in the sentence, and llama doesn’t have the ar suffix, so I’m not sure that helps in any way. What does llama have to do with a big fire in that accent?
minus-squaredavidgrolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 hours agoA “3 Alarm” fire is one big enough to send 3 fire trucks, and in a Boston accent with an extra “a” at the end it would vaguely sound like “3 L llama”
minus-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 hours agoClose! A 3 alarm fire could be shortened to “a 3 alarmer”. Which in Boston would be pronounced without the Rs for: “a 3 alamah”.
minus-squareJason@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoSo do people in the US rank the size of your fires in “alarms”??! Like a bin fire is a 1 alarm fire? But a house fire is a 3 alarm? Do you say, “quick, evacuate the neighbourhood, there’s an 8 alarm fire heading our way” I’ve never heard of this before today.
minus-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 hours agoThe number of alarms is (I think) how many different departments, or possibly fire engines, are needed to fight the fire. So yes pretty much. It’s often how they are described in news articles.
minus-squareTelodzrumlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 minutes agoIt’s firefighter “units,” generally — kinda a mix of your two guesses.
The residents of the greater Boston area have an accent when -ar is pronounced -ah. So a car is a cah.
Car isn’t in the sentence, and llama doesn’t have the ar suffix, so I’m not sure that helps in any way.
What does llama have to do with a big fire in that accent?
A “3 Alarm” fire is one big enough to send 3 fire trucks, and in a Boston accent with an extra “a” at the end it would vaguely sound like “3 L llama”
Close! A 3 alarm fire could be shortened to “a 3 alarmer”. Which in Boston would be pronounced without the Rs for: “a 3 alamah”.
So do people in the US rank the size of your fires in “alarms”??! Like a bin fire is a 1 alarm fire? But a house fire is a 3 alarm?
Do you say, “quick, evacuate the neighbourhood, there’s an 8 alarm fire heading our way”
I’ve never heard of this before today.
The number of alarms is (I think) how many different departments, or possibly fire engines, are needed to fight the fire. So yes pretty much. It’s often how they are described in news articles.
It’s firefighter “units,” generally — kinda a mix of your two guesses.