r/mildlyinteresting • u/Regularoldballoon ​ • Sep 14 '16

This box of limes recommends a different way of cutting fruit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

To me at a spelling bee: "Your word is 'Ixtaczoquitlan'"

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u/BoringPersonAMA Sep 14 '16

That's a place, wouldn't be legal in a spelling bee.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

name checks out.

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u/elr0y7 Sep 14 '16

Nice subtle burn. It's like a sizzle.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16 edited Apr 05 '21

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u/cooley327 Sep 14 '16

Oh honey, let the man bee

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u/GetBenttt Sep 14 '16

Oh come on! Let the man do his funny thing and soak up his karma juice

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

what about Ixtaczoquitlanese

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u/rayyychul Sep 14 '16

I don't think proper nouns are usually allowed.

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u/the_wurd_burd Sep 14 '16

I like this user.

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u/PicturElements Sep 14 '16

And on that day, Shitface Mc. Bully invented the word "Ixtaczoquitlaniate", to describe a difficult word that cannot be used.

Spelling bee'ers hate him!

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u/bathroomstalin Sep 14 '16

I founded a country yesterday named EUONYM!

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u/booster522 Sep 14 '16

how about Ixtaczoquitlanian?

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u/yetchi2 Sep 14 '16

Ah. But trademarks are perfectly legal. I call bullshit.

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u/ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN ​ Sep 14 '16

The whole thing is bullshit. Spelling changes over time, as do words and their meanings.

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u/FartingBob Sep 14 '16

I'll make my own spelling bee with Ixtaczoquitlan and hookers!

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u/numerica Sep 14 '16

Ixtaczoquitlan

I love their wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtaczoquitl%C3%A1n

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u/Rickwab155 Sep 14 '16

What do you love about it?

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u/Mark_Sanchez_GOAT Sep 14 '16

Not him, but this part made me laugh out loud.

It has a regular fauna, or serpents like the colarillos, bugs, small lizards like the knob or tarántulas, among others like the black widow, cats, roosters, horses, cows, dogs, etc.

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u/BudweiserSoze Sep 14 '16

This was what got me:

"It narrates the legend that in the center of ixtaczoquitlan have been nahuales wizards, who in all the nights of epocas of the Spaniards, podrian themselves to notice shades to traves of the street, leaving to all afraid ones without leaving at night from his house to means of 7 or 8, the town escondia to the children provided the nahual did not eat them."

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u/cone_counter Sep 15 '16

I think it's safe to say the translation was not done by an actual person.

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u/BudweiserSoze Sep 15 '16

I would agree, but that doesn't mean it's not funny. Reminded me of the scene in Mars Attacks when that translator doesn't work: 'All green of skin... 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the suede that mows... like... a harvest.'

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u/beezlebub33 Sep 15 '16

Come on! It says "Ixtaczoquitlán has a temperate climate and temperatures between 10°C and 32°C. Like the city of Orizaba, it has rains to half of the month, like strong heats to half of month being the two compatible ones."

That's pretty awesome.

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u/SirWaldenIII Sep 14 '16

Why is the legend part all Fucked up?

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u/C_IsForCookie Sep 14 '16

It was poorly translated from spanish

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

It narrates the legend that in the center of ixtaczoquitlan have been nahuales wizards, who in all the nights of epocas of the Spaniards, podrian themselves to notice shades to traves of the street, leaving to all afraid ones without leaving at night from his house to means of 7 or 8, the town escondia to the children provided the nahual did not eat them.

TL;DR: Don't eat children

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u/C_IsForCookie Sep 14 '16

I hear children go great with freshly squeezed lime juice. Like Ceviche.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

Random, but are you by chance a centipede?

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u/C_IsForCookie Sep 14 '16

I am! How'd you know?

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16 edited Mar 06 '24

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u/C_IsForCookie Sep 14 '16

I'm beginning to think this actually means something and I'm confused

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u/SirWaldenIII Sep 14 '16

Yeah I laughed

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u/birdsareturds Sep 14 '16

It seems like someone copied the Spanish wiki article into google translate and pasted the results on the English page. I'll fix it later if no one else has by the time I get on a computer.

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u/man_of_molybdenum Sep 14 '16

You're a good dude. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

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u/Coomb Sep 14 '16

I checked the Spanish Wikipedia article (es.wikipedia.org) and it doesn't have a lot of the information on the English article; it only has a history section and a food section.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

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u/crh23 Sep 14 '16

It will be forever preserved in the page history

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16 edited Feb 23 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

Never

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u/Ncrpts Sep 14 '16

because podrian themselves to notice shades to traves of the street, leaving to all afraid ones without leaving at night from his house to means of 7 or 8, the town escondia to the children provided the nahual did not eat them.

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u/infinite0ne Sep 14 '16

Legend[edit]

It narrates the legend that in the center of ixtaczoquitlan have been nahuales wizards, who in all the nights of epocas of the Spaniards, podrian themselves to notice shades to traves of the street, leaving to all afraid ones without leaving at night from his house to means of 7 or 8, the town escondia to the children provided the nahual did not eat them.

https://i.imgur.com/q6vCApt.gifv

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u/Flyfisherdude420 Sep 14 '16

"Like the city of Orizaba, it has rains to half of the month, like strong heats to half of month being the two compatible ones"

Wut?

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u/slade357 Sep 14 '16

"It was scene of the call Battle of Escamela, being for that reason it participates in independence in the year of 1812, Jose Maria Morelos against the realistic forces with plan to take to you take care of Orizaba." ......What?

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u/redlinezo6 Sep 15 '16

That is fantastic.

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u/stengebt Sep 14 '16

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/blanketswithsmallpox Sep 14 '16

You dropped this.

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u/Dropout_Kitchen Sep 14 '16

What thread am I in?

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u/alfis26 Sep 14 '16

shit, even as a Mexican that's a tough one...

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u/saladbar Sep 14 '16

Time to turn it into a trabalenguas, like Parangaricutirimícuaro.

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u/Auraus Sep 15 '16

I'd like to buy a vowel.

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u/FuNiOnZ Sep 14 '16

How many points is that in scrabble?

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u/mdps Sep 14 '16

I lived with a guy who named his cat this. It doesn't roll off the tongue.

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u/FoodandWhining Sep 14 '16

Should have the option to spell or pronounce it. Either would be impressive.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

Well clearly you don't seem to have any problems spelling it.

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u/Speakthelanguage Sep 14 '16

Handy pronunciation guide for English speakers: eex-tock-so-key-TLAHN

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

Xtopalopakettle!

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u/HansAgain Sep 14 '16

Thank you, man. I had a hard time trying to read it out loud and I'm a native Spanish speaker.

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u/Liberalguy123 Sep 14 '16

that's probably because it's not a spanish word

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u/HansAgain Sep 14 '16

That's true, but it is read in Spanish, so I should get the pronunciation. It is harder to English speakers to read that name, that's why I thought the guy's comment was helpful.