Hey friendo I think you accidentally a word
Also why does Dwight look like AI
That’s computron obviously
Looks like he got a Snapchat filter on
I’ve got no idea what this is supposed to say or mean 🤷🏾♂️
Example: Chuck, I need that report by today!
I think you may be parsing something wrong, or perhaps you’re ESL and something is translating weird to your native tongue. Idk friendo, it just rolls off the tongue weird and relies on a different interpretation of the phrase for each panel, it’s almost like “anti-wordplay”. You hit the nail on the head, but it’s a bent nail and it’s not gonna drive.
Getting a post upvoted into the three digits isn’t a given at Lemmy. That a few people don’t get it or appreciate It isn’t on me and It surely isn’t a big deal. I notice you yourself have never contributed a post here. Try It out.
Even knowing about the sentence structure “Do x by today”, this post is phrased weirdly.
The top text uses the pattern "effect by amount", which leads people to see today as an amount in the bottom text. The bottom text is also a different kind of sentence entirely; “Shortening the lives of the rich by today” is a sentence fragment and needs to be modified, perhaps like “Me when I’m shortening the lives of the rich” to fit the format, or “Shorten the lives of the rich today” to fit the conclusion of the top text.
In any case, the format of the meme, the top text, and the bottom text do not rhyme, which makes them difficult to understand in relation to each other.
It has been a pleasure to tweak the format and inspire some thought. Thank you.
I prefer not to start petty little battles at LEMMY. I’m sorry that you have never heard the phrase: Jack, make sure we get that delivery by today!
It’s English. That’s the fun of it. You might try it.
Every comment here says you’re in the wrong, and your reaction to that is “No, it is everyone else who is wrong, not me.” Learn to take a hint.
Not a popularity contest.
The point of a system is what it does.
Language is for communicating to other people. The other people you communicated to think you did it poorly (because you did).
It’s ok to make mistakes. It’s not ok to refuse to acknowledge them.
It’s not okay to ignore 227 upvotes. It’s okay. Some folks get it and some don’t.
I’ve seen enough, go back to Reddit.
I… I don’t get it.
Me neither. Is it supposed to be a call of violence like “shorten the lives of the rich to today”? Or “shorten the lives of the rich by the end of today”?
Shorten their lives by one day. They get another healthy 50 years minus 24 hours.
Explanation how I understand it:
Being poor shortens your life
Begin shortening the rich’s lives [by making them poor through expropriation], starting today
It’s super confusingly phrased, tho
I think it’s more like Luigi’ing their life so it’s shortened to [end] today
Well then the grammar just doesn’t make sense
100%
Thought this was !aneurysmposting@lemmy.world
That’s the spirit, brother.
You wouldn’t believe how many people could not grok this meme.
Fair warning, the .ml asshats will remove this for p0LitiCaL
What?
As long as you don’t point out that Stalin and the bolshevik elite was rich, your good. Let’s see how this comment will do.
As long as you don’t patently lie then you are good
