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xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard

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Anyone who is caught counting 'three ... two ... one ... zero ... GO!' will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3232/

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[-] Ispanico@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Holy shit, is that why people call george w bush dubya? As a non native English speaker I wouldn't have thought of that in a million years

[-] SuperNovaStar 1 points 1 day ago

Yep! Also, if you aren't familiar with the way words are either stressed or elided in spoken english, you're probably so confused when you hear native speakers talk 😅

We literally don't pronounce most of the sounds in most of the words we say. If you go around pronouncing every syllable of every word you'll sound insane

this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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