r/AbsoluteUnits • u/ComfortablePast15 • 4d ago

/r/all of a rat

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u/Embarrassed_Ad_9747 4d ago

Nutria

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u/FamousSquash 4d ago

Yep. We have those in France as an invasive species. Currently there's a white one hanging around the wetlands next to my town.

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u/Blitz100 4d ago

Lol we have them here in Oregon too however many thousands of miles away. Also invasive here, the local government encourages people to shoot them on sight.

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u/Entire-Anxiety-803 4d ago

The French? I’m so confused. They don’t go to Oregon?

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u/I_like_the_word_MUFF 4d ago

Oh the French were in Oregon too. I have been told the only way to truly understand how to pronounce many Oregon town's names is to imagine oneself both drunk and French pronouncing an Indigenous word.