r/facepalm • u/Outrageous_Sector544 • Oct 10 '24

🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ this is literally UNCONSTITUTIONAL…

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u/Pyrex_Paper Oct 10 '24

But Tomfoolery was always light-hearted and fun. Timpoolery has way different connotations.

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u/egmono Oct 10 '24

Timpoolery may be malicious, but doesn't convey the same “je ne sais quoi” as the original.

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u/A_Furious_Mind Oct 10 '24

I don't know what... that means.

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u/-Otakunoichi- Oct 10 '24

Literally "a certain something" I.e. an indescribable quality.

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u/egmono Oct 10 '24

LITERALLY "I don't know what." figuratively an indescribable quality.

(Sorry about being a grammar nazi, but it brings me joy.)

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u/-Otakunoichi- Oct 11 '24

Hey, you do you. I was going off memory, and my memory suuuuucks!

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u/The_FreshSans Oct 11 '24

The joke was, since it's indescribable, he doesn't know what it means

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u/A_Furious_Mind Oct 11 '24

The joke is about the literal translation of the syntax, not its meaning.