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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

"Ronald Reagan has won the Presidential Election" was pretty terrifying.

[-] BeanGoblin 29 points 1 year ago

Yeah but that's seven words.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

"President Ronald Reagan" is three; three and seven average out to five.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I knew I shouldn't have dropped out of statistics

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Well, that adds up.

[-] FakeGreekGirl 10 points 1 year ago

"President-elect Ronald Wilson Reagan"

[-] occhineri@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

It's also six in the original quote, who cares about numbers anyway?

[-] tubaruco@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

am i missing something or is there an extra joke because the guy cant count?

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 34 points 1 year ago
  1. we've - contractions are still a single word
  2. improved
  3. our
  4. mobile
  5. app

5 (five) words...

Original quote was "nine" and "I'm with the government and I'm here to help."

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

Which is exactly the kind of thing you want to hear from the leader of the government.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It's a perfectly reasonable thing to say if your campaign and ideology hinges on you rooting out the corruption in government. It's a way of capturing the idea of the corruption that you want to fix.

Like all Republican messages in the last 60 years or so, it's bullshit, but there's nothing ironic about it.

[-] HerrBeter@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

government indeed bad when it's ran by fascists

[-] HerrBeter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Gubernment good

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Also, when the hell does anyone from the government show up to say that? If I need them to help me, I contact them. If they're contacting me, it's because they're helping someone else (employees, crime victims, the public).

[-] tubaruco@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

thanks for clarifying. i did not know contractions counted as one word

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yep. English is a very hard language (and I say this as a native speaker who, caring about proper grammar, still struggles with it).

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
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