• @TurboDiesel
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      3811 months ago

      Right? I was very confused until I saw where I was. Good shitpost.

  • @ADonkeyBrainedFrog
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    3611 months ago

    I spent too long trying to figure out what the message was lmao

        • @[email protected]
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          1711 months ago

          The ‘H’ and ‘S’ in Rhode Island are already silent, so it really is a meme saying that they live in Rhode Island

          It’s a subversion of the “I live in Spain, but the ‘S’ is silent” joke

  • @Tobin
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    2311 months ago

    Could someone explain this to me?

  • @Rooty
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    1611 months ago

    Rode eyeland

    • @angrymouse
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      Why english?
      Some years ago when I was learning english I was very worried about my accent, after years and more advanced English I just don’t fucking care, cause seems nobody fucking cares about this language quality anyway. You write things and read like you fucking want. Quality meme tho

      • skulblaka
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        611 months ago

        You write things and read like you fucking want

        That’s the last lesson you have to learn before becoming fluent in English, especially American English. If you put a Cajun, a Yankee, a Brit and an Australian in the same room, despite all four of them allegedly speaking the same language you’ll be lucky to communicate more than a sentence or two between the lot of them.

        There are certain rules to be followed in English but a solid 45% or more of our “rules” are more like “subtext” and can be freely ignored, changed, or customized based on location and current company.

        As for the “Why, English?” that’s because English is a stolen mishmash hodgepodge of 14 different languages where we took the cool and useful words and bastardized them into unrecognizability. English more than any other is a patchwork language. We didn’t invent shit, merely reappropriated other people’s words in true classic English fashion.

  • @Random_user
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    1311 months ago

    Do people really not now how to pronounce these words or are the upvotes ironic?

    • @[email protected]
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      611 months ago

      I think originally it was rhode island and Providence plantations. Rhode island was Newport (island) and the plantations were providence, kings, and kent. But yeah Rhode island referred to the actual island. Then it became a state and eventually dropped half its name

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        Even more confusing, the island was originally named Aquidneck Island and is still called that by locals despite the name being officially Rhode Island.

  • @Mr_Blott
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    411 months ago

    Pffft imagine naming a place after a chicken 😂

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ
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    311 months ago

    It’s pronounced “rodes island”?

    Explain it to me like I’m not an American.

    • Fogle
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      711 months ago

      I think it’s talking about the s in Island. It’s road Island