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Larruping..

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 50 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Larruping is a perfect cromulent word.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

transitive verb:

  • To beat, flog, or thrash.
  • To beat or flog soundly.

TIL!

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 10 points 3 months ago

I feel embiggened.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, larruping. Obviously.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

See, that's what sold me. So many playing cards get this part wrong.

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can't get enough of the stuff.

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Something about the paragraph sense always has me coming back

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey I think we have the same picture. Unless I'm confusing a different account, but I have certainly used that picture somewhere.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, so I guess all potatoes look alike to you!?

I actually only changed it recently by Googling "potato" and clicking the first, best potato I saw. So you're surely right.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Hey, they're the same variety!

And obviously not the same exact potato, although I have that one on my laptop. And similar on my desktop. And my reddit profile is a different but also similar potato.

I'm just a big fan of potatoes.

[–] DishaweslemOride@lemmy.org 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

"Chirmany" just sounds like "Germany" said with a German accent. So it's like, even more German. Cherman.

yes I know they say Deutschland no one needs to say it

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't Germans say Deutschland, though?

[–] Findus_Falke@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ja, aber zometymes we zpeik forren längwedge

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I'd argue that "Chirmany" sounds like a person from New Zealand talking about Germany

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago

I think they call it Deutschland in German.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love Chinglish and this is a great example.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For those that might not know, engrish.com still exists.

Many class hours wasted in high school on this site. ratemypoo.com was also incredible to 15 yr old me.

[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

wow. a ratemypoo drop in 2026

[–] wizblizz@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Larruping is the new gooning

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Honestly, I wonder how well they fan... with a description like that, I expect great things on par with artisan cardistry decks

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago
[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand the word they're even going for.

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

That's where they gave up pretending to know English.

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

My favorite Chinglish example is on a brand of earbuds that I use every day. They're actually great.

BELIEF

LETMUSICBURN

OPPOTY

NEVERGIVEUP

ANNOTATION

MUSIC AND DRIAMS

https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/hfjpnh/oppoty/

I need that on a t-shirt.

[–] reev@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

The trusty BLONs

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

FWIW Blon BL03 punches well above its weight class

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 1 points 3 months ago

I have the BL-A8 Prometheus, but I've heard good things about the BL03s.

[–] Amro@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

It's the worldly best and you know it

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"flatness and folder-proof". Is literally bent in the picture.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yes, but you will sure as hell not be able to put it in a folder

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Ah, damn it, you are right. I've been bamboozled.