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Source: https://xkcd.com/2839/

Explain XKCD: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2839

Title text: My first words were 'These were my first words; what were yours?'

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[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 125 points 2 years ago

Reads comic.

Goes back to count how many words are in the comic.

[–] match@pawb.social 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Twist: he knows more than 12 words, he just didn't learn the right number

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I immediately thought of that scene in the West Wing.

President Josiah Bartlet : Sweden has a 100% literacy rate, Leo. 100%! How do they do that?

Leo McGarry : Well, maybe they don't and they also can't count

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Actually, I've always had a rather extensive vocabulary, not to mention a phenomenal grasp of grammar and a superlative command of syntax. I simply chose not to employ them.

[–] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] bss03 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that a stormlight archive reference?

[–] TheActualDevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It'd be so much weirder if it wasn't.

[–] who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Used every word he had to make that sentence

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] otter@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago

Didnt' forget this time!

Hopefully I did that correctly

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

How do you count to twelve without knowing the other numbers?

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Who learns twelve before one through eleven?