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Should we point out that in this context it’s ‘save’, not ‘safe’? If you’re going to correct someone’s spelling, make sure your own is impeccable.

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Nah. It’s engagement bait, plane and simple

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It works too well… plain and simple.

That missing period had better also have been intentional.

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But how can you be sertain?

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That’s the neet part. You can’t

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The fact that that’s a thing is why I don’t use the more mainstream social media. Only Lemmy.

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Its another classic case of Muphry’s Law.

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Don’t you meen Murphy’s Law?

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MUUUURPH!

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you’re*

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Youeu’re*

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Youropean Younion

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ur

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Lol. Wrong.

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You’re* wrong.

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Deoxyribonucleic acid, for anyone wondering

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Deoxyribo&ucleic acid, for anyone sophisticated

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Deoxyriboanducleic acid, according to Shadow Radar.

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Well… deoxyribo and acid. The whole “n” is gone

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God safe us

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Ucleic acid

New band name or refreshing treat?

Nobody decides

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Wouldn’t it be Deoxyriboandacid?

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Sometimes I take an andacid when my stomach hurts.

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Ah yes, cue Monocle’d Pooh!

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Dicks n ass, for anyone wondering. It’s the male version of tna.

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Sure that first one is plural?

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It’s a gay term, and when gay men have sex, there is usually more than one dick. It’s a play on TNA, which is plural too.

There is a gay magazine called DNA, a play on the fact that it may be genetic. we all know what they really mean.

But, sure, in a straight monogamous relationship, there may be a singular. Broaden your mind to other possibilities.

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I have this acronym finder as a search engine shortcut in vomnibar. It never has what I’m looking for:

Department(al) Network Administrator Datanetwork Associates (Software) Does Not Apply

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Did someone tell these vomnibar people that their name sounds like vomitbar

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Or DRNA to anyone in the know.

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I get mad every time I think about it that we don’t call it DRNA

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I think you mean deoxyribo and acid.

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Science jargon has always sounded so impressive until I took anatomy.

for example, the big hole in the bottom of your skull (where the spinal chord passes through) is called the “foramen magnum” which is Latin for ‘big hole’.

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Is it jargon or just a different language

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Scientists use one to pretend the other

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You gotta mix Greek and Latin to make it sound cool.

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I recently learned that mastodon (the animal) literally means breast tooth, because some thought their teeth (or tusks?) looked, well, breasty?

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Get this. You have a structure in your brain called the “mammillary bodies”. It’s because it looks like a pair of tits.

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Unlike the cowards who hide their stupid names with latin, computer scientists will straight up call something a ‘fat pointer’.

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What part of deoxyribonucleic acid do you not understand?

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Dungeons nucleic Dragons

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This new craze they call “rock nucleic roll” is driving the country’s youth wild!

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Oh, yeah, that’s fair.

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The elven part

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What if I told you there’s another kind of DNA for which that statement is actually true?

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68 points

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That’s South Africa, you can’t expect that much from a 30% pass mark.

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South Africa is a region composed of several countries and eleven non-english languages. You’re going to judge them based on a word Americans misspell??

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South Africa is a country, or did you mean counties? They’re called provinces there. Despite the 11 official languages, the primary language is English, it’s considered an English speaking country.

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