I still sometimes think about the guy in my lower secondary school English class in probably 2016 reading the infobox on the Wikipedia article for Tanzania, and saying out loud, “Official languages: none de jure??”, pronouncing it in a heavy singsongy Norwegian accent like “NOO-nuh duh YEW-ruh??”, apparently believing “None De Jure” to be the name of some sort of obscure African language rather than just meaning “no official language”

And then I remember that this was around the same time that the teacher asked what New York was named after, and I raised my hand and answered “the Dork of York”. And then my soul goes nichijou_pencil_stab.mp4 for a bit

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I grew up with a guy that got on his hands and knees and pleaded with a girl to not break up with him. Same guy asked out every single girl in our grade and by the time he had gotten halfway through the list the rest had gotten wind of it and were rejecting him out of principle.