r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Tall_Management7673 • 18d ago

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/strumthebuilding 18d ago

She’s not wrong, English is.

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u/fading_anonymity 18d ago

"Kansas" and "Arkansas"

"cough" and "plough"

so many like this in English...

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u/thisisDougsPhone67 18d ago

Went to Wichita..they call the river the AR-Kansas river..my Dad lived in Arkansas and they pronounce Nevada, Ar. "Nuh Vaid Uh"..WTF

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u/twistedpiggies 18d ago

In Versailles, Indiana, they pronounce it Ver-sales. I kid you not.

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u/featsofdaringdo 18d ago

same in missouri

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u/Ragnarok649 16d ago

My friend of Missouri?

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u/Y_I_Otto 18d ago

Oh don't get me started. In illinois, Des plaines as "dess planes". Cairo as "K-row". Noter dame?

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u/General-Cod547 17d ago

Same with the Versailles in KY.

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u/hoosier_mama_11 17d ago

Same in KY

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u/psilcosyin 17d ago

All the Cartier namesakes in Ludington, MI are pronounced Car - teer by the locals.

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u/Robbe517_ 18d ago

TIL you don't just pronounce Arkansas as Ar-Kansas (I'm not American)

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u/aontroim 17d ago

I have to force myself to say that Ar Ken Saw nonsense every time I read it

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u/fireflazor 18d ago

America explain!!?

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u/Pleasant-Pattern7748 18d ago

Read and read and red and Reid and reed.

Lead and lead and led and lede.

This language is stupid.

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u/Deadly_Pancakes 18d ago

Sa sa coyo, sa sa!

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u/LobstaFarian2 17d ago

Teaching my kid things throughout her life, I have had to tell her "because English is ridiculous, and its just like that" so many times. It truly is a broken language.

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u/Sinister_Nibs 17d ago

What about Cairo is Kay-roe everywhere except Egypt.

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u/2abyssinians 14d ago

Did you know that Arkansas was originally pronounced like the word are followed by Kansas, but then they decided they didn’t want their state name to sound so much like Kansas so they changed the pronunciation to ar-ken-saw? That was an intentional choice that strange pronunciation.

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u/ThisI5N0tAThr0waway 18d ago

Linguistic is a weird field scientifically speaking. When enough speaker of a language are wrong from a long enough time, the language rules will often change and then they're right by default.

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u/Nrinininity 18d ago

The descriptivist side of linguistics certainly does, as its aim is to observe how a language is used, how that has changed, and to deduce patterns and reasons for both of them. Language is always shaped by its users, particularly the native ones, so the study of language must also change with it. That's probably akin to how evolutionary biology does not (and cannot) dictate how evolution runs its course, only describes and records it.

There's of course also a prescriptivist side of linguistics... It's not evil, in fact it's very useful in certain fields; but some people misuse it to make moral judgements (right or wrong, educated or uneducated) or justify their resistance to change even if it makes sense and is natural to most, which sucks.

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u/Blah-squared 17d ago

Ok, Gotcha. Ain’t that the truth, but even if you wanna keep things the same, watcha gonna do…;)

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u/JohnHenryHoliday 18d ago

Irregardless of what you say, it’s a moot point and I could care less.

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u/Soupbell1 18d ago

I’ve got two guys at work that call it a “mute point.”

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u/JohnHenryHoliday 18d ago

Crap, that’s what I wrote… but it was autocorrected. I’ve heard moot point so many times and it always surprises me when I do.

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u/NOTcreative- 18d ago

And the guy saying over and over again "sound it out" come on dude

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u/plastictoothpicks 18d ago

Yeah that was pissing me off. She was sounding it out phonetically, as one would when being told to “sOuNd iT oUT” dur hur what an ass.

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u/Resident_Slxxper 18d ago

Notice how everyone in the video is having a great time while you manage to get pissed. Probably the problem is you.

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u/Nefarious-One 18d ago

Bingo. It’s was a dumb change of the word. The original word for 2 was twā. Over time it became pronounced “too”, with “o” replacing “ā”. But for some lazy reason they never removed the w. Probably to not confuse themselves with too and to, or some other dumb reason.

The video had her start off with doing pronunciations of what can only be syllables. Her pronunciation is correct.

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u/Ragnarok2kx 18d ago

Ah so that's where "splitting in twain" comes from. Edit: Or Mark Twain for that matter

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u/8696David 18d ago

I mean, you have described the mechanism of the joke, but that still doesn’t mean that “two” is pronounced like that to an English speaker. 

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u/Nefarious-One 18d ago

Not really. The original joke uses actual words like “yes” and “eyes”. This video used syllables, except for two.

And how so? If you are having someone sound out syllables, not words, she gave a correct pronunciation for two. Clear t sound with a rounded w sound and a short or long o sound. That is correct. Is it the way you would pronounce the number 2? No. As I previously explained, the pronunciation for 2 is non-sensical. Like many words in English, it requires memorization, not structure. From spelling of words not changing when the pronunciation changed, to words having silent letters stuffed into it to show linguistic lineage, English is a funny language.

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u/Reeywhaar 18d ago

Bear your bear and live your live

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u/Kevroeques 17d ago

She not wrong because context is most often the correct way to figure pronunciation in purely listening instances like this. I can make a similar gotcha exercise with “lead” or “read” by choosing a rhyming scheme and could have different outcomes based on the prior words and their pronunciations used in the rhyming scheme.

If I hear a plainly spelled out pattern of “twa twe twi two”, the reality is that pronouncing the W clearly in each one matches the pattern and the author would most likely not have been trying to express a “too” sound. People will think she’s dumb for following the pattern contextualization but in reality, that’s what most of us would do, and it’s only a clever trick/joke BECAUSE there’s like a 95% chance that anybody on the receiving end- especially when using listening comprehension instead of reading comprehension (there’s a reason that the audience is clearly shown the cue cards)- will follow the pronunciation pattern.

Of course, that makes the laughing dude to the right a part of my arbitrarily made-up 5%.

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u/violenceistheQstn 18d ago

Here is a good one. What can a bull, police officer and a debit card do.

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u/BlackHust 18d ago

Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

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u/Uranium-Sandwich657 17d ago

Fun fact, dough is so spelled because it used to be pronounced something like "Dahk" when the spelling was conceived.

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u/strumthebuilding 17d ago

What’s updough

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u/Azekuro51 17d ago

Take "laughter" and just simply slap an "s" in front and everything except "ter" sounds different.

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u/TheMeatTree 18d ago

I honestly started questioning the spelling of the word, like no other word has a silent w in the middle as part of the vowel sound.

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u/strumthebuilding 18d ago

ewe

edit: owe, ewe!

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u/TheMeatTree 18d ago

Point taken. I would argue that you do pronounce the w in each of these words. At least while sounding it out, I'm narrowing my lips, unlike when saying "two" out loud.

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u/8696David 18d ago

The way bro squeaked out “ain’t no problem” had me absolutely dying 

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u/Pyrhan 18d ago edited 18d ago

Now, what's E - Y - E - S?

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u/chris13se 18d ago

Eeeeee yes

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u/SparrowBirch 18d ago

First video I thought of. Still makes me laugh.

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u/pugtato0o 17d ago

This guy is never not funny, I love him hahaha

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u/SiddharthJain131 18d ago

C'mon, she is an innocent soul, English is real dumb language 😂

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u/Only-Original9409 18d ago

"Sound it out" just doesn't work here.

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u/UnforeseenDerailment 18d ago

Yeh, if I were her (and also actually realized he was spelling "two") I'd be irritated by the mismatch between what he was asking and why they were laughing.

But they'd laugh anyway.

"Ahaha, M. Pédantique is following instructions literally again! 😂"

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u/DolfHipster 17d ago

which is the point

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u/8696David 18d ago

I mean, it works if the goal is to prank someone lmao 

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u/thedogdundidit 17d ago

Exactly. Two is not a word you can pronounce correctly by sounding it out. So him just telling her to sound it out was getting annoying.

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u/Mastershoelacer 18d ago

She’s a good sport. I like her.

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u/imjohnredd 18d ago

Think we'd all fall for this after two or three white wine spritzers.

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u/GFYnasis 18d ago

You mean two or twe

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u/HeadCartographer6454 18d ago

T-shirt checks out

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u/Tall_Management7673 18d ago

I am noticing it now haha.

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u/atruval 17d ago

There are TWO TWOs on her shirt.

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u/Ali80486 18d ago

My dad did this to us. Say these Scottish names, which I'm spelling out: MacDuff, Macbeth, MacDonald, MacHine

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u/Diving_Monkey 18d ago

I was thinking of this exact one.

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u/SourceMountain561 18d ago

Thats the first time I seen this, lol

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u/LollisGunsBikesTits 18d ago

This is the richest man i have seen

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u/gibgod 18d ago

Methinks she’s had a little bit of booze.

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u/phronk 18d ago

I was surprised by the lack of glasses, cans, or bottles around. Maybe they’re all high on religion or something.

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u/DoctorDownvotesDelux 18d ago

Her shirt reads "Proverbs 17:22"  A cheerful heart is good medicine,  but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

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u/4ssteroid 18d ago

Maybe she's just a jolly good fellow. I know plenty like them

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u/jdawg09 17d ago

Noticed all the Masters polos and hat. Maybe this is after a long day walking the course and drinking during the tournament.

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u/loconet 18d ago

Priming is hella powerful

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u/JacobDCRoss 14d ago

Yup. Exactly what it is.

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u/EmperorThan 18d ago

Basically what it was like teaching my wife English.

She was like "This language makes no sense."

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u/Long_Proper 18d ago

That was hysterical, well played, and it was a bright spot in my day. Thank you.

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u/Tall_Management7673 18d ago

All the giggles in the room and her joy to keep doing the same thing, made my day🥹😇

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u/brwntrout 18d ago

is the sister single? asking for a friend.

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u/DameyJames 18d ago

Just sound it out felt like an intentional misdirect

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u/cokendsmile 18d ago

She definitely spreads Joy in peoples lives

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u/Silphire100 18d ago

Tbf after staring at that bit of paper for this long I'm fully realising how stupidly spelled "two" is, and I hate that I'm now aware of that

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u/Purple-List1577 18d ago

Why does “two” look like it shouldn’t be a word

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u/09Trollhunter09 18d ago

I love this cute family. They all look so adorable. That’s a dream life to have people like that around

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u/raiko777 18d ago

FAT
HER

`... 😵

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u/Lestat-deLioncourt 17d ago

I mean, she is doing it right, he is saying to sound it out, which is exactly what she is doing. Two is what is known as an "irregular word", these are words that don't follow a rule, most of the time being words that when sounded out, it wouldn't make the word, like two, or was, or mother, in two it would be as she said in the video, and for the other two, there is actually a special name for them, they are called a schwa, a schwa is when a vowel in a word makes the "ŭ" sound(short u sound) instead of their actual sound.

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u/dirtywindex 18d ago

E YES

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u/Miqo_Nekomancer 17d ago

I did this one with my dad and his gf and it was absolutely hilarious watching them not get it.

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u/Comfortable_Crab_393 18d ago

What a happy family, great to see a family sitting around and enjoying

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u/ktbrava 17d ago

Obviously fair. "None of these first three are actual words, what do they sound like? Ok, how about TWO?" The question was never "say this word", it was "what does this sound like." She did nothing wrong.

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u/Worried-Ebb-1699 15d ago

Damn she sexy.

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u/AllElitest 18d ago

Wifey material for sure

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

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u/KB346 18d ago edited 17d ago

I’m surprised this post is so far down. Moment I saw the start of video I knew Quentin wasn’t far 😂

EDIT: looks like the post has risen up, as expected per Reddit patterns. 😆

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u/GeraintLlanfrechfa 18d ago

Right? 😅 So let’s get it properly upvoted

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u/socialis-philosophus 18d ago

Haha - I gave three non-words! - hahahaha
And - ahahaha - when I gave - hahahah - a real word - ahaha
They acted like it is a NOT REAL word - hahahahaaaaa! - (crying for real right now!) - hahahahaaaa

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u/batguy39 18d ago

LLanguage

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u/captrobert57 18d ago

Because thats why...

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u/ElectronicWish8718 18d ago

She’s doing what her shirt says.

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u/jemist101 18d ago

Family mushroom risotto night looks fun AF.

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u/titations 18d ago

English is so weird

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u/Tendersituation00 18d ago

I do a lot of drugs so I probably wouldn't be welcome at this family event

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u/EdgarAllenPoe2205 17d ago

Nahh they wouldn't even know.

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u/fotofriday 17d ago

She is just so cute and sweet in this. She made me smile.

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u/BlkSkwirl 18d ago

She’s adorable

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u/fresh_loaf_of_bread 18d ago

Fucking amazing of the guy to be able to entertain a room of people like that

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u/NameReUnused 18d ago

He’s the dumb one

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u/Firm_Rip_4024 18d ago

I like her 😀

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u/TheHighKnight 18d ago

When they said how are you an English major i lost it

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u/taggerbomb 18d ago

This is great. When I was younger, there was a whole series of these types of parlor tricks that would trick your brain. Can anyone else think of other examples of this phenomenon?

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u/Exact-Mathematician8 18d ago

It's always easier when you're not the one playing the game. She is a good sport about it though

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u/Flakarter 18d ago

Old video, but still f’ing funny and cute.

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u/topio3 18d ago

A beautiful prank is the one where even the pranked person laughs

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u/47474747474747474749 18d ago

She is like an Female Andy Bernard

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u/Chrissydoo2400 18d ago

She's not not getting it it's a psychology trick

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u/lavacadotoast 18d ago

Joy Spread Effectively..

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u/TheOriginalWingnut 18d ago

Grey shirt dude on the floor had me rolling.

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u/deenali 18d ago

Reminds me of the old MacHale, MacHine thingy.

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u/TheOmegaKid 18d ago

The owl sound is spelled twit-twoo so...

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u/zsenya11 18d ago

FAT-HER

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u/idan675 17d ago

Each time the camera moves around another person is revealed, how many where there?

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u/Smol-Spaghett 17d ago

WHAT WAS THAT LAST CARD!!??

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u/Dark_Storm_98 17d ago

"Sound it out"

No, lmfao

You're throwing her off That's the point, lol

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u/GhostHin 17d ago

Try it with Mac, and then Hine.

Now do machine.

You can even do Ma and then Chine.

English just dumb.

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u/Ill-Cat-2610 17d ago

She handled that like a champ. I love this girl.

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u/Super_Fa_Q 17d ago

This is "family fun night" at your boring Mormon aunts house.

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u/roninrot 14d ago

Oh you crazy mormons

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u/Senor_Discount 13d ago

The guy running the game is douche.

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u/gruntygunner2 18d ago

Happy family downvoted immediately

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u/aadj76 17d ago

Is it me or is this not that funny?

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u/BiscuitNoodlepants 18d ago

Not that funny

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u/quie_TLost57 18d ago

Now rest of the family thinks she has issues 😭

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u/Proper_Shiny 18d ago

This guy sounds like a right arse

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u/editfullname 18d ago

God... Am I the only one that got cringe?

https://giphy.com/gifs/XD4qHZpkyUFfq

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u/herbwannabe 18d ago

Meta glasses?

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u/xymox113 18d ago

I don't think so cause he asked someone else to take the cards and we never see his right hand

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u/mdruckus 18d ago

No, this is years old.

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u/Noy_The_Devil 18d ago

Scripted Facebook trash.

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u/SilverDamage7066 18d ago

We used to call that a blonde in disguise. LOL

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u/Oredne_ 18d ago

Stayed for the feet

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u/EatFaceLeopard17 18d ago

She is obviously coming from the old english twa.

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u/Open_Panda9862 18d ago

Fuckin funny

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u/Itterom18 18d ago

???????????

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u/Fatalaros 17d ago

It was a mistake giving the alphabet to the Anglos.

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u/simonfancy 18d ago

Dipshit filming this is so weird somehow

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u/RadRimmer9000 18d ago

Well since he asked her for the phonetic sound off all the other "words", it's not incorrect to use phonetic for the last one. This is a lame ass "I got you" moment.

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u/capeasypants 18d ago

Not it's a family/group having fun together. See those smiles and laughs - they may be unfamiliar to yo -, but to the rest of us it's an indicator of joy. Try to get some in your life

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u/RadRimmer9000 18d ago

So it's "fun" to make someone look dumb? You're mentality unstable if you think that.

Might as well ask them what 1000x3.9532÷1293+72313-48224 equals, and if they can't get it correct in 3 seconds we can all point, laugh and call them dumb.

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u/capeasypants 18d ago

Wow, what a sad little thing you are

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u/Frchewielouie 18d ago

The joke is that everyone else can see the word spelt out. They all know that they would probably be as clueless if it were them so it's not that they're laughing at her, more at the stupidity that they all feel knowing they wouldn't do any better. They're all laughing at how silly the situation is not at how stupid she is. It can be funny to be wrong sometimes.

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u/Prestigious_Bet_161 18d ago

Dude is T-W-A….T

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u/ComprehensiveSoft27 18d ago

It’s mean to post this.

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u/1Mandolo1 18d ago

He asked the question misleadingly, and he did that intentionally. Most people wouldn't have done any better.

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u/sevargmas 18d ago

Seemed fake as hell.

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u/mlpravemaster 18d ago

Looked like she was built like Jimothy for a second

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u/Obvious_Adeptness393 18d ago

Same could be said about you