My 8 year old son told me this randomly after getting out of the shower this morning.

  • @[email protected]
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    231 year ago

    This reminds me of an expression in Spanish

    “Todo junto se escribe separado y separado se escribe todo junto”

    Which I just discovered is the same on English lol :

    “All together is written separately and separately is written all together”

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    171 year ago

    In french, “ça touche pas ça touche, ça touche ça touche pas” is a common riddle. You ask the person to guess what “it” is in “‘it doesn’t touch’ touches, ‘it touches’ doesn’t” (of course this doesn’t work in English but it does in french due to the usage of ‘pas’ for ‘doesn’t’). They may then ask you if various things touch or not. The game may go on for several hours as the guesser tries to guess objects, animals, concepts before they get that it is about whether or not your lips touch.

    A common occurence is the guesser gives up, and whatever phrase they use to indicate that is just interpreted as another guess by the riddler: “I give up! -‘I give up’ touches.”

    • @Klear
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      21 year ago

      There’s a similar riddle in English: “I like coffee but I don’t like T”, so the person has to ask about various words and you say you don’t like them if they contain the letter T.

  • @captars
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    161 year ago

    Hyphenated. Non-hypenated. The irony.

  • @bravo_malaka
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    121 year ago

    How can touch be real if our lips don’t touch when we say it?

    • Nanachi
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      21 year ago

      how can touching be real if your lips aren’t real

    • dustin
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      11 year ago

      Almost perfect . You forgot to capitalize every word, but otherwise the impression was chef’s kiss

  • myxi
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    111 year ago

    Now it’d be cool if Vsauce spawns here explaining how you can’t truly touch something.

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      1 year ago

      Hey Vsauce, Michael here. What does it mean to be touched by something? In 1890, a poet named Rene Bomier said that to touch is to feel the world around you. But what if the world touched you back?

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  • Eh-I
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    61 year ago

    But I can touch your lips while saying 🤫"touch"🤫

    • @smellythief
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      151 year ago

      It’s almost like showerthoughts aren’t always as profound as they seem. Almost.

  • cazzodicristo
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    31 year ago

    definitely weird, and when I say turtle my lips don’t become a turtle. why not??

  • @Flytrap
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    21 year ago

    Nor do they touch when saying “together.”

  • @dreadedsemi
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    21 year ago

    Because you should touch with your fingers first before your mouth and when we separate we shut our lips …

  • @SailingG
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    21 year ago

    Same in spanish with “tocar” and “separar”