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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a good thing they didn't call it oand if the person who invented the world decided to use ocean instead of sea.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What if it's between land and a lake? Then it'd be just... land again?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

The sand has landed, I repeat, the sand has landed!

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Excellent meme but I think this is the wrong community.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Lemmy is small enough that memes using historical material and memes about historical material can share a comm.

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Beans is it really

[–] sga@lemmings.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

would general memes be better or something like !linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works (where you would have to actually include the etymology of sand in subtext or something)

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I used to think that “seal” was short for “sea lion.”