Americans are goofy af "criss cross applesauce" bitch that don't even rhyme
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Am American, I know the phrase criss cross applesauce, but have never heard it used seriously. I've always said and heard, cross legged. Years ago it was called Indian style but I haven't heard that in years.
Yeah, was Indian style as a kid in the early '90s. Little kids need some mnemonic device to literally just not fly off the face of the earth, and so that was the replacement they came up with. Cross-legged just doesn't grab a kid's attention like mashed apples.
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uk we say "cross legged" or "cross leggéd" if you're feeling Shakespearean
Fun fact: in Hungarian we say "Turkish sitting" (törökülés).
In German we call it "tailor's seat" (Schneidersitz).
Boring fact: it's also "sit like a Turk" or "sit the Turkish way" in Russian (сидеть по-турецки).
Now I'm curious what they say in Turkish.
UPD: me and @[email protected] are referring to the Lotus position which is what it is called in Turkish.
Is this a quote? I don’t understand how it doesn’t rhyme.
It does in an American accent, I guess
In my accent (UK), "cross" rhymes with "boss", and "sauce" rhymes with "horse". Pretty sure boss and horse don't rhyme.
If I'm understanding correctly then the words "sauce" and "source" are indistinguishable when spoken by a brit?
Pretty much yeah!
Source will have emphasis on the r.
Its important because if youre at the dinner table and ask for sauce wrong, mum will pass you 273,000 lines of javascript.
That's borderline child abuse
It’s the same in Aussie English
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Wait, so the non-rhotic accent adds an "r" into words that don't have one? I guess all your "r"s at the ends of words need to go somewhere...
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Because sauce and horse are long and cross and boss are short, right?
I'm not a native speaker but our lord and savior Dr Lindsey made a great video about British English and what Americans get wrong about it.
For me as a second language learner, cross rhymes with boss but sauce neither rhymes with horse nor boss. But that's just me tho.
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I need an example pronunciation of how it doesn't rhyme because the only way I can hear it in my head rhymes. I've never heard of this name for the seating method though.
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BEHOLD FOR I (a brit) HAVE RECORDED AUDIO!
this is why the phrase "criss cross applesauce" does not rhyme in British English. cross rhymes with boss, sauce rhymes with horse. Criss cross applesauce. (sorry for quality - I didn't realize my phone mic was such garbage)
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I think that was the transitional terminology from when they used to tell kids to sit "indian style"
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That's not true. https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-photo-owl-sitting-crossed-legs-822881945319.
Cool image though and funny meme.
Ahhh yeah you can see it, there's a bit of fluff that looks like it's the right leg going over, but it's just fluff.
Owls are 90% fluff, so this checks out.
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They are learning.
We need to make them some prosthesic hands.
I guess I have extra big news for you: [email protected]
Always remember the acronym A.V.I.A.N.:
A - Birds
V - Are
I - Not
A - Real
N -
This is what they look like without feathers. Demon birds.
I think that's a hawk.
Owls have sausage eyes, they are fixed focal length and go back into their skulls, leaving very little room for a brain.
Edit: with a reverse image search, it seems I'm not the first to say this. My guess is that this is just dodgy taxidermy - maybe it was an owl, but taxidermy is notoriously bad at eyes.
Thanks, Dick Wolf!
Dun-Dun!
I want an owl that does this.
Makes it look like someone in an owl suit
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