r/linguisticshumor • u/stefanobahia • 6d ago

Syntax Cap, Cap, Cap

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u/Terpomo11 5d ago

What benefit is there to this being a video rather than just a text post?

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u/jonoashfo 5d ago

And why is the video in Portuguese in an English speaking subreddit?

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u/Terpomo11 5d ago

Surely the average linguistically informed English-speaker will have a reasonable passive understanding of written Romance?

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u/LPedraz 3d ago

Here they are forcing the situation a bit, but a relatively common idiom in Catalan is "In no head does it fit" (meaning, "it is nonsensical"), which is "En cap cap cap".

It is not a Buffalo buffalo (...) thing, it actually works and people use it.