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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

Americans are goofy af "criss cross applesauce" bitch that don't even rhyme

[-] HeapOfDogs@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Am American, I know the phrase criss cross applesauce, but have never heard it used seriously. I've always said and heard, cross legged. Years ago it was called Indian style but I haven't heard that in years.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, was Indian style as a kid in the early '90s. Little kids need some mnemonic device to literally just not fly off the face of the earth, and so that was the replacement they came up with. Cross-legged just doesn't grab a kid's attention like mashed apples.

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[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Is this a quote? I don’t understand how it doesn’t rhyme.

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It does in an American accent, I guess

In my accent (UK), "cross" rhymes with "boss", and "sauce" rhymes with "horse". Pretty sure boss and horse don't rhyme.

[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

If I'm understanding correctly then the words "sauce" and "source" are indistinguishable when spoken by a brit?

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty much yeah!

[-] StaplesMcGee@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Source will have emphasis on the r.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Its important because if youre at the dinner table and ask for sauce wrong, mum will pass you 273,000 lines of javascript.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 5 points 1 year ago

That's borderline child abuse

[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago
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[-] Nihilore@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It’s the same in Aussie English

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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

Wait, so the non-rhotic accent adds an "r" into words that don't have one? I guess all your "r"s at the ends of words need to go somewhere...

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[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

...which UK accent? Big place, loads of regional differences.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

"Why Im I being fired, Bauss? Is it because I pronounce it 'Hoss?'"

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[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Because sauce and horse are long and cross and boss are short, right?

I'm not a native speaker but our lord and savior Dr Lindsey made a great video about British English and what Americans get wrong about it.

For me as a second language learner, cross rhymes with boss but sauce neither rhymes with horse nor boss. But that's just me tho.

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[-] funkless@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

uk we say "cross legged" or "cross leggéd" if you're feeling Shakespearean

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fun fact: in Hungarian we say "Turkish sitting" (törökülés).

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

In German we call it "tailor's seat" (Schneidersitz).

[-] kennismigrant@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Boring fact: it's also "sit like a Turk" or "sit the Turkish way" in Russian (сидеть по-турецки).

Now I'm curious what they say in Turkish.

UPD: me and @TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee are referring to the Lotus position which is what it is called in Turkish.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm always feeling Shakespearean

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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

I need an example pronunciation of how it doesn't rhyme because the only way I can hear it in my head rhymes. I've never heard of this name for the seating method though.

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[-] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

I think that was the transitional terminology from when they used to tell kids to sit "indian style"

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[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Ahhh yeah you can see it, there's a bit of fluff that looks like it's the right leg going over, but it's just fluff.

Owls are 90% fluff, so this checks out.

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[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago
[-] kubica@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We need to make them some prosthesic hands.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago
[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Always remember the acronym A.V.I.A.N.:

A - Birds
V - Are
I - Not
A - Real
N -
[-] FastAndBulbous@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is what they look like without feathers. Demon birds.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think that's a hawk.

Owls have sausage eyes, they are fixed focal length and go back into their skulls, leaving very little room for a brain.

Edit: with a reverse image search, it seems I'm not the first to say this. My guess is that this is just dodgy taxidermy - maybe it was an owl, but taxidermy is notoriously bad at eyes.

[-] magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago
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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Makes it look like someone in an owl suit

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I want an owl that does this.

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