• @[email protected]
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    4811 months ago

    Hmmm, which one? I’m going to paddle around in my kāy-nō?, or The lava from that vol-ka-ˈnew might cover the village!

    • therandoe
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      I think there’s a joke about vul-canoes and vulverines in here somewhere that result in canoes with claws. I just can’t quite find it.

      • @YarHarSuperstar
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        2411 months ago

        “vulverines” sounds more like genitals with claws.

        • @jaybone
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          And from vulvarines, we can get to vulvamarine, where there has to be some kind of cunnilingus joke.

  • @[email protected]
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    2411 months ago

    I’m not doing research here while being an internet expert. But more people are killed every year in canoe-related incidents than volcano related incidents.

    • @Eylrid
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      1211 months ago

      Mildly related fact: More people die of drowning every year than have ever died from nuclear incidents including Nagasaki and Hiroshima

  • @Usernameblankface
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    1911 months ago

    Bing helped me put together the mental image I got from this post.

    • @HonoraryMancunian
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      411 months ago

      Well that’s French for shower canoes

      And everyone knows not to mess with the French, lest they hit you with their baguettes

      Ergo super dangerous

      QED

  • @[email protected]
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    1511 months ago

    But which one will we be mispronouncing?

    Canoes = kay-noes?

    Volcanoes = vahl cuh noos?

    • @[email protected]
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      TIL canoes isn’t pronounced kay-noes like volcanoes… English why do you keep bamboozling me 😩

      • @dustyData
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        Because English isn’t a language, it’s a goon in a trench-coat that lures other languages into dark alleys and beats them down to steal spare grammar.

        Canoe comes from Caribbean indigenous words through Spanish and Volcano comes from ancient Latin and Roman religion.

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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      1111 months ago

      Well the old West Norse ‘völlr’ means field, so “vol-canoe” would roughly be field-canoe, or land-boat…

      So maybe a tractor?