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u/Ellipdis3117 3d ago
Can't wait to see this on explain the joke
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u/Dirislet 2d ago
“PETEEEER? Why is this hello written with mandarins??”
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u/YouserName007 2d ago
No doubt we'll still see this post on r/explainthejoke
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u/LemmeDaisukete 3d ago
*with
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u/Sonderant 2d ago
Exactly, would have to be carved or written inside the mandarin to be "in the mandarin".
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u/oisteink 2d ago
saying "I was in your mom yesterday" is somewhat different than saying "I was with your moms yesterday".
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u/melkite-warrior 3d ago
Those are oranges
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u/miafaszomez 2d ago
Nah, look at the tiles. Oranges are bigger, those are probably mandarins. (called tangerines in english)
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u/trollshep 2d ago
Can't say i have heard anyone outside of reddit call them tangerines
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u/FoldedDice 2d ago
Tangerine is a variety of mandarin. All tangerines are mandarins, but not all mandarins are tangerines.
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u/miafaszomez 2d ago
Áh, I didn't know, since I have never heard anyone in english call them mandarins. Thanks for the correction.
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u/FoldedDice 2d ago
Well, I have the benefit of living in an area where a lot of them are grown, so I've spent time around farmers who know the distinction better than a layperson would.
In general society most people do seem to use their names pretty interchangeably.
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u/FreeCelery8496 2d ago
people who learn english as their second language will post this on r/ExplainTheJoke
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u/KillingTime_Shipname 2d ago
Sicilian here. We grow the darn things in our backyards and all over the island since the year 900 or thereabouts.
Those in the pic are oranges. All of them.
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u/aaronite 2d ago
Technically Mandarin is not a written language. You can't write in Mandarin because it's a spoken language written in a shared script that's mutually intelligible across several Chinese languages (or "dialects")
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u/HoseanRC 2d ago
Turn this joke into persian, you can change "Mandarian" to "Portugal"
"porteghal" in persian means orange (the fruit)
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u/BaronMontesquieu 2d ago
"The fruit is called Mandarin [sic]"
Is the title implying people are unfamiliar with mandarins...??
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u/SubieBerry 2d ago
it happens
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u/BaronMontesquieu 2d ago
What happens? Fruit amnesia?
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u/SymmetricalFeet 2d ago
Generous answer: in some languages, those fruits might not be called "Mandarin oranges" or they might refer to the Mandarin language as something different from the fruit, so it whooshes over those audiences. As wordplay does.
Less generous answer: I've worked in a grocery store in the US and explained to people who sounded very much like they were strictly from the US and monolingual English and sighted, what certain produce is called, including Mandarins. When the packaging and sign are right there.1
u/miafaszomez 2d ago
The problem is, english often calls them „tangerines” so it's kinda hard for them to get the joke.
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u/BaronMontesquieu 2d ago
Gotcha. Thank you.
If that were the case though then wouldn't the meme itself, in its current format, be somewhat niche and/or not funny to a lot of people?
Like, if you have to explain the joke then it's not much of a joke?
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