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>yfw you realize the word "student" has "study" in it
>students study
>yfw "mineral" has "mine" in it
>you mine for minerals
>yfw "closet" has "close" in it
>you keep your close in a closet
>yfw you go to church on sunday
>SON day

What other cool secrets are hiding in our language?

>> No.4157918

>>4157915
>>yfw "closet" has "close" in it
And you can close it.

>> No.4157921
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>>4157918

>> No.4157925

Believe contains the word LIE in the middle

>> No.4157932

Hell is in "Hello".

>> No.4157933

"abbreviation" is a long word

>> No.4157936

>>4157915
wow, did you just realize that?

>> No.4157939

Your probably 12 or something, but here you go.

And it is SUN-day. God, sun, got it? But the pun works too.

To "comprehend" means to embrace, you have it on your territory, you hug the thing you understand. Now to "understand" on the other hand means to stand under, but not really, this "under" is similar to being among, surrounded by the thing as well. "Surround" has "round" in it, but it is not exactly that either, its origins have it means to be overflown by something. "Overflow" has "over" in it, so we go back to "under-stand" and you'll also realize that "surround" is almost "super+under", hence "overflow". Everytime you say in some way that you understand something is as if you were saying "I'm there with it, I'm there with you, I'm familiar with it". "Familiar" should make you think of "family". "Think" and "thing" are almost the same, as if to think was to made a thing out of stuff, to put them in different boxes, it is an objective approach. "Objective" has "object" in it. But "subjective" has "subject" in it and this "sub" means below, hence only a sub-ject can under-stand something.

>> No.4157941

>>4157939
and cat shit means that it is a cat which has taken a shit. The shit comes from within the cat.
This is similar to what happens in real life, where cats after eating will inevitably have to excrete their food which has now turned to shit. Hence cat shit refers to shit from a cat, like the words we use to designate cat shit to the object cat shit.

Trust me, I'm a philologist

>> No.4157942

>>4157915
>SON day
but but that is wrong...

>> No.4157945

>>4157942
are you an autist?

>> No.4157968

>>4157915
>clothes/closet

Clothes comes from Old English claðas "cloths, clothes," from Proto-Germanic *kalithaz (cf. Old Frisian klath "cloth," Middle Dutch cleet, Dutch kleed "garment, dress," Middle High German kleit, German Kleid "garment"), of obscure origin.

Closet comes from late 14c., from Old French closet "small enclosure, private room," diminutive of clos "enclosure," from Latin clausum "closed space, enclosure, confinement," from neuter past participle of claudere "to shut" from the possible PIE root *klau- "hook, peg, crooked or forked branch" (used as a bar or bolt in primitive structures); cf. Latin clavis "key," clavus "nail," claustrum "bar, bolt, barrier," claustra "dam, wall, barricade, stronghold;" Greek kleidos (genitive) "bar, bolt, key," klobos "cage;" Old Irish clo "nail," Middle Irish clithar "hedge, fence;" Old Church Slavonic ključi "hook, key," ključiti "shut;" Lithuanian kliuti "to catch, be caught on," kliaudziu "check, hinder," kliuvu "clasp, hang;" Old High German sliozan "shut," German schließen "to shut," Schlüssel "key."

>> No.4157976

>>4157915
In Sweden married and poison is the same word.

Gift

>> No.4157982
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4157982

>slang is a slang

>> No.4157983

>>4157939
Don't be mean... I just think it's really cool that creators of the English language left these little easter eggs in it.

Speaking of which...

>mfw you were born on your birthday
>mfw the word "shark" looks like a shark
>and "bed" looks like a bed
>FedEx looks like a guy loading a package into the back of a truck

>> No.4157984

>>4157983
Anyone who responds to this obvious trolling is an moron

>> No.4157986

>yfw you realize sperm has sper in it
>yfw woman has wom in it
>yfw sperms cut through the wom with their spers

>> No.4157987

>>4157945
are you not?

>> No.4157992

>>4157987
no

>> No.4157995

>>4157984
What does that make you?

>> No.4157997

>>4157992
are you sure?

>> No.4157999

>>4157995
commenting on him while linking the post is not responding to him unless you mean "reacting to" which, given he's doing it, is probably not what he meant

>> No.4158003

your nose runs but your feet smell????

good is god +o
evil is devil -d

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>>4157915
>you keep your close in a closet

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I feel like OP also wrote this.
pic related

>> No.4158229

>yfw you realize to mine goes for miner
>yfw you realize to rape goes for raper

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>>4158214
>Heres a tip...
>Some brands are good
>Some not so much

>> No.4158246

>>4158214
That post should be shown to people who wonder what it feels like to be high.

>> No.4158252

>>4158246
I took it off of /ck/
There was a period of 2 or 3 months where (presumably) that guy would make a bunch of nonsensical posts all kind of like that. I really wish I capped more.

>> No.4158265

>>4158252
Lel, I googled the pic and found an archived /ck/ thread. It's some old Southern guy:

>I know what you are talking about. Not just kfc, bu6t alot of take out chicken. I like thighs. but you are eating, and all of a sudden next to the bone, there is little awful brain looking little gland thing...and I am sorry, I have no problem eating meat, but that grosses me out. I think it just wasn't cleaned well. and I am + 50,and from the south US, but I don't snap the heads of shrimp and suck the brains out and say ooohha that is the bestest part... I don't eat mud turtles, snake, worms or possum. ( don't you know turtles have 7 different kinds meat I could if I had to, and have eaten some fairly nasty stuff on military survival training, but why? Iam Christian, and we differ on many points, but on this I agree with any Jews and Muslims , ( and I eat pork if cleaned well) but I would sooner eat sewer sludge than catfish, bay scallops, farm raised shrimp or tilapia..
http://fuuka.warosu.org/ck/thread/4484337#p4487415

The posts are even better if you read them with a deep Southern drawl in mind.

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>>4158265
>sorry, my keyboard sticks, I meant to say many, not any. and am aware that not every one has the luxury to pick and choose.. and I did not mean to say anything bad about many asian cultures or religions. sigh... I sure am painting myself in a corner all. i men't was people should be careful about meat, fish or any thing. same for lawyers,Md's, car dealers or restaurants.. the best don't advertise on t.v. they don't have to.
>i men't was people should be careful about meat, fish or any thing.
>i men't
>men't

and ymollo

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4158274

>>4158265
>I like thighs.

>> No.4158283

OP, you are only scratching the surface.

Language has power.
Control it or others will control you with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chYkhlCon6E

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>>4157983
>>mfw the word "shark" looks like a shark

>> No.4158297

>>4158283
"Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning."
- Judge Holden

Fuck, I love that quote.

>> No.4158304

>>4158274
>that gif
Jesus, that is one ugly motherfucker.

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>>4157983
>>mfw the word "shark" looks like a shark

>> No.4158322

>>4158304
one of us, one of us
lol

>> No.4158326

'Family' has the abbreviation ILY in it

>> No.4158334
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4158334

>yfw boob is boob spelled backwards
>yfw literature rhymes with nature because literature is natural lol i am genius
>yfw the word everyone has every and one in it, if combined it means everyone oh my lawd the secrets of the universe

>> No.4158364

Eminem is probably in this thread taking notes.

>> No.4158366

>>4158326
'I loathe you'?

>> No.4158378

>>4157941
I lol'd way too much at this one.

>> No.4158456

>tfw 'calque' is a loanword and 'loanword' is a calque

>> No.4158459

Sunday is called sunday because the Germanic tribes worshipped the sun
Same with the moon (monday)

>> No.4158461

>>4158459
No they didn't. Sunday ultimately comes from PGmc *sunnoniz dagaz, which was a translation of the Latin 'dies solis', a day in honour of the Sun.

>> No.4158475

>>4157915
And onamonapoeia will blow your mind, man.
>clack sounds like a clack
>bang sounds like bang
>zip sounds like a zipper

>> No.4158480

>>4157915
>>yfw you realize the word "student" has "study" in it
More like my face when I realized it's possible to not realize it.
>>SON day
More like SUN day. All the names of the days of the week are astronomic references.

>> No.4158484 [DELETED] 

>>4158480

*tips fedora*

>> No.4158485

>>4158003
>your nose runs but your feet smell????
Mind blown

>> No.4158487

>>4158475
>And onamonapoeia will blow your mind, man.

I felt incredibly stupid how I didn't realize earlier in the chapter that
>Rented a tent, a tent, a tent;
>Rented a tent, a tent, a tent;
>Rented a tent!
>Rented a tent!
>Rented a, rented a tent.
(The Sirens of Titan) was actually the sound of a snare drum. Only at the end of the chapter when I visualized the marching did it actually click in and then my mind was blown.

>> No.4158488

>>4158484
*fucks up the ass*
G'day mate!