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syringis

(5,101 posts)
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 03:24 PM Nov 2017

I need help

I'm not an English native speaker. Sometimes, I have problems to understand some words or some expressions.

Specifically these signs :



These are disturbing :





Dissect live babies ?



How do you peel a Congress ?



What are the other colors?



Is it a word salad ?



I thought English was already the official language ?



Who is Hugh and what have he done to "mistake America" (what does it mean?) ?



What mean STY ?



Is it in English ?



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ProudMNDemocrat

(16,784 posts)
1. Beats the shit out of me, partner..............
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 03:32 PM
Nov 2017

where or what rock these people crawled out from under.

Grammar and spelling were certainly not their string suit I see.

3catwoman3

(23,975 posts)
2. I can help with most of them.
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 03:50 PM
Nov 2017

Mostly spelling errors. From top to bottom:

1. devide should be divide

2. open your mouth and I will fill it - based on the bad behavior of many ministers, unintentional reference to oral sex by preachers with people they are not marrried to

3. to enter someone is a euphemism for a penis going into a vagina/ commonly used in erotic literature

4. ?

5. rePEEL should be rePEAL

6. redisTRIBtion shoud be redistribUtion

7. calculis should be calculus

8. offical should be official

9. hugh was probably supposed to be huge

10. amensty should be amnesty

11. citiens should be citizens

12. ileagels should be illegals

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
8. # 4 is a reference to that great bugaboo, the partial birth abortion.
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 06:10 PM
Nov 2017

Very rare (illegal in U.S.), not done by Planned Parenthood but at the forefront of Forced Birther fantasies.

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
11. Google David Daleiden for the answer to #4
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 11:59 PM
Nov 2017

David Daleiden is the anti-abortion whackjob who started the lie that Planned Parenthood sells tissue from the fetuses they abort.

Permanut

(5,602 posts)
4. I think it might help if you go back to grammer school..
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 03:52 PM
Nov 2017

where they can learn ya to talk good. You can tell it helped me.

Rhiannon12866

(205,250 posts)
7. It says something about our education system
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 04:45 PM
Nov 2017

That those who learned English as a second (or third, or fourth) language can spot these errors so easily. But then it appears that Trump never took a basic history course.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
9. Shame that an expensive education was wasted on Trump
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 08:05 PM
Nov 2017

but now I understand why his illiterate base relates to him.

Rhiannon12866

(205,250 posts)
10. It's impossible for me to believe there were no history classes wherever he went
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 10:30 PM
Nov 2017

In public school here in New York, four years of history - both World History and American History, not to mention a basic understanding of how government works - were the norm. Either he sat in the back and threw spit balls or never attended at all... And wouldn't "military" schools emphasize history?

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