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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

Best joke idea? Incidentally, this implies the existence of recursive Britishness.

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sep 2, 2025, 1:23 pm • 60 1

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social

Finally a plan to return English to what it was always supposed to be: French.

sep 2, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cap'n No Painted Minis @captainnopaints.bsky.social

They're called the Royal Family and the late Queen was a very committed cousin to her husband.

sep 2, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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James @whitewaterlawyer.bsky.social

it's weird how "hyper british" just means "copying the french a little more" (alt text maybe?)

sep 2, 2025, 1:26 pm • 4 0 • view
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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social

Bleedover from Zach spending time learning French.

sep 2, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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James @whitewaterlawyer.bsky.social

Bleed over from England being intimately intertwined with France for most of its history

sep 2, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social

RETOVR

sep 2, 2025, 1:36 pm • 3 0 • view
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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.bsky.social

#Alt4you Text reading: Handwritten line: I order longer when I eouncter a younger grocer. Corrected with red pen to: I ourd-re loung-re when I enocoun-untre a youungre groucere Caption: New orthography proposal: hyper-british spelling (extra hyphens so it works correctly with screen readers)

sep 2, 2025, 1:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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James @whitewaterlawyer.bsky.social

"how to make spelling jokes work with screen readers" does sound like a particular challenge There's no phonetic reading that wouldn't on some level miss or distort the joke. I don't think we have to consider it "ableist" for some humor to be medium-specific. That's taking a good idea too far.

sep 2, 2025, 1:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.bsky.social

I had to learn this so pokémon names would be rendered correctly and by Arceus I'm going to use it!

sep 2, 2025, 1:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social

Fun facts: - British spelling emerged when the English stole all the vowels from Wales in the 13th century. - Americans boycotted imported "U" after the Boston "T" Party and it stuck. - Canada's domestic "A" supply is so large Canadians can inexpensively put them on the end of sentences.

sep 2, 2025, 2:02 pm • 9 1 • view
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bonus army speedrun any% @notbyenough.bsky.social

Our [us] movie theater has a big sign which says "[town name] Towne Centre Cinema" which we always spell as "[town name]e Towne Centre Cinemae"

sep 2, 2025, 1:28 pm • 4 0 • view
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BronyMike @bronymike.bsky.social

Reminds me of Rouxls Kaard from Deltarune deltarune.fandom.com/wiki/Rouxls_...

sep 2, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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Allan Olley @allanolley.bsky.social

You should be sent to gaol. 😉

sep 2, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Russet Burbank @russet-burbank.bsky.social

Gah-ol?!

sep 2, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Allan Olley @allanolley.bsky.social

It is the traditional British spelling of "jail".

sep 2, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Russet Burbank @russet-burbank.bsky.social

It was a joke

sep 2, 2025, 3:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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Coffee and Chocolate Games @realcoffeechoco.bsky.social

Careful. Once you resolve the last parenthetical, you're left with deconstructed Britain - Angles, Saxons, Celts, Romans, and ex-colonials from the Subcontinent.

sep 2, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view