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[–] Hans@feddit.de 156 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Rukmer@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

The first one I would think they were just kind of atypical at writing, like: "congrats," I said. As if they were writing a story.

The "your" is the most harsh, haha.

[–] 768@sh.itjust.works 98 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I read them as following:

"I" never said we should kill him.

Someone else said it.

I "never" said we should kill him.

I didn't say it.

I never "said" we should kill him.

I just thought it.

I never said "we" should kill him.

Someone else ought to.

I never said we "should" kill him.

It's just a possibility.

I never said we should "kill" him.

What did we do? We could have given him cookies.

I never said we should kill "him".

Someone else though.

The third one can be inferred as "I didn't say the words" as I inferred it.

Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

The said thing can also mean you heavily implied it, but never said it. Alex Jones relies on that a lot, saying he never encourages offensive violence, then goes on diatribes about how you're already under attack and they're coming to kill you now and yes God should be the one to kill them bur also God uses men as instruments of his will so maybe if you feel like you're an instrument of God's will you're probably right.

Also the version I learned was:

"I never said he stole my money."

In this version every one of them gives the idea that the accusation of stolen or somehow maligned property occurred, except in the case of never. That one is just straight up denying most of it.

I got stuck on "should", this helped.

[–] palitu@aussie.zone 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

clever!

did anyone else read them all aloud?

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hope you didn't do it in public?

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 12 points 1 year ago

I kinda mumbled them at first, but I must have had too much fun and said the last one too loudly, because now the TSA would very much like to know who my intended assassination target is, who got killed in stead and whether I have any bottles of liquid.

[–] robyoung@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Quietly byt audibly while sat in the office scowling at my computer.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't not read them all aloud.

[–] palitu@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

So... you did?

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Show someone 100 years ago that this is something someone wrote with full seriousness, and that it's grammatically correct. I wonder what they would think of us and our state of language.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Mark Twain would probably applaud the cleverness

[–] Kawi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah go lie to someone in the past to make them mad about the future.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How much is the prize of this slot combination?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago

1,000,000 buffalo

[–] TheOhNoNotAgain@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Doing the same for the phrase "I didn't say you were stupid" is a common rhetoric exercise.

[–] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't steal a hydrogen bomb.

i read bomb as bong and had a double take

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Joke on "importance of proper stress/emphasis" with original phrase "I never said she stole my money". One of the cooler parts of languages like English.

[–] FrasseFisk@feddit.nu 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why did I read every line out loud in my head?

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

It's impossible not to.

[–] 1800doctorb@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Why would Jerry bring anything?

maim hurt punish but i never said kill that kids is what you call plausible deniability

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