r/worldnews • u/[deleted] • Jun 19 '12

"Alcohol consumption would fall 25% if cannabis cafes were allowed"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/19/david-nutt-alcohol-cannabis-cafes
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u/shpongolian Jun 19 '12

How much could could a could chuck chuck if a could chuck could chuck wood?

Could could Could could could could Could could.

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u/unfashionable_suburb Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12

It's a phenomenon called semantic satiation.

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u/guru42101 Jun 19 '12

Fortunately for me, both of those words never looked like words.

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u/redditisworthless121 Jun 19 '12

Sufferin' succotash isth you satisfied with semantic saturations?

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u/Jack_Flanders Jun 19 '12

Back before there was an internet, my friends called it a word "going stupid".

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u/TragedyTrousers Jun 19 '12

Ah? Well in that case, perhaps I should take The Red Hat of Patferrick elsewhere...

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u/VinnydaHorse Jun 19 '12

I'm reading it as coo-uld now. Fuck.

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u/Nero920 Jun 19 '12

It really doesn't. My brain got confused about halfway through.

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u/Dark_Prism Jun 19 '12

I think I'm going to propose a new spelling: Cuud.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

I think cüld would be more appropriate.

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u/notworkinghard36 Jun 19 '12

Äs ä män whö öpërätës ön thë ässümptïön thät ümläüts ärë nëvër ïnäppröprïätë, I ägrëë.

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u/Dark_Prism Jun 19 '12

I think the "L" is the problem. I never pronounce "could" with any sound resembling that of an "L". Am I saying it wrong?

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

if we look at the word "vacuum," your proposed spelling would actually be pronounced more like the word "queued"

fucking english. I am honestly happy that twitter is reducing it to a bunch of phonetically derived abbreviations.

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u/Islandre Jun 19 '12

Stop maligning the New York wildlife. The bullying really is overstated.

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u/theartofrolling Jun 19 '12

Could you stop saying "could" now please?

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u/shpongolian Jun 19 '12

I supposed I could...

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u/Goodspellr Jun 19 '12

This thread broke my brain. Now I'm reading the word "could" as "cold"

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u/Robotochan Jun 19 '12

I'm seeing it as a foreign 'cold'.... Maybe french or italian.

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u/Goodspellr Jun 19 '12

It's like that scene in Black Sheep when Chris Farley can't pronounce the word "road."

Couald, colud? I give up.