Usually its like just a few words sprinkled in, or at most like one or two lines…

Literally I feel like they’re just trying to say: “Hey this is a foreign language I’m sooo cooool!”

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    This is more of a question than a thought, but apparently the English language borrows from lots of Latin-ish and other alphabetic languages of centuries past.

    Yes English is awkward. I didn’t write the rules or definitions either. 🤷

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      Just think.

      Right now at your local hardware store are tons of tools you can buy. If you need to cut something, you can buy a saw.

      And when you use the saw, the word “saw” is the verb of how you use the noun. So you’d use a saw to saw.

      And if you had an instinct to cut a saw in half, you might use a second saw to cut the first saw in half.

      But you wouldn’t do that. YOU have no desire to do that. But maybe someone else does. And maybe you just happened to bear witness to the cutting of the saw. You will have seen it. And since thats now in past tense, you saw it happen.

      In which case you will have saw a saw saw a saw.

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        I’m probably gonna fuck this up, it’s something of an old ‘meme’, before I was even born in 1982. Anyways, an old riddle I once heard, from a book written before I was born…

        Riddle…

        • You’re stuck in a room, no windows and no doors.
        • All you have is a table and a mirror, how you get out?

        Answer…

        • You look in the mirror and see what you saw.
        • You use the saw to cut the table in half.
        • Two halves make a whole.
        • You climb through the hole and you’re out!

        Yeah, works better verbally LMFAO!

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          If I, as a child in the 80s had said that to my mom, she would have said “Quit being asinine. That would never work.”

          Yeah. I suppose it wouldn’t…

          And that boys and girls, is how you give a child depression, and a reason to question if talking at all is even worth it.

          Hint: No. It’s not.

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            My parents gave me the book of riddles. Wish I still had it…

            That’s the only depression here, that I don’t still have the book ☹️

            Double edit: I rather liked the book.

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        I once saw a man in Arkansas, who had a saw which could out saw any saw that it saw saw; the man said, “Have you saw a saw that could out saw the saw you saw in Arkansas? If you have saw a saw that could out saw the saw you saw in Arkansas, show me the saw saw.”; when he said that I saw a saw, I said, “Yes I did saw a saw in Arkansas, and what a saw I saw, that saw saw!!”

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          I was going to say that you’re more like The Brain. Then as I increased the font size, I realized your name is Pirky. Not Pinky. So now my reference makes no sense.

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        “I could have swore i saw a saw saw a saw on the shore.”

        “…Are you sure?”

        “Certain. And i couldn’t quite cut time to help curt Tim cut the curtain in tin.”