• BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I’m not sure what’s happening in this one? We are supposed to think they pretend to call the cops but they actually do?

    • limelight79@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      I don’t understand what you don’t understand. The dad just got off the phone with the police, and they are talking about what happened.

  • NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Have you figured out what all is missing?

    A bit off-topic, but is anyone else confused about how this is phrased? That “all” sounds really out of place to me…

    • 7uWqKj@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Interestingly, the literal translation “… was alles fehlt” is perfect German

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      18 hours ago

      It’s a common enough way to say that. It means roughly “what are all the things that are missing” in this case.

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      17 hours ago

      Yeah I’ve seen this phrasing a lot, but never heard anyone use it in real life. I always assumed it was American.

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        It’s regional, even – people from my part of the US are like to think you sound folksy if you use it. The “all” in “what all” is the same phenomenon as the “all” in “you all” that becomes “y’all”. You can use it with most pronouns – “who all is coming to dinner?” or “where all you been?”. It’s mostly an intensifier.

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              11 hours ago

              I’m not the previous commenter, nor am I from Philly or Pittsburgh, but I do believe you just made an enemy for life.

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                10 hours ago

                Idk I think yinz is a top tier regionalism.

                edit: I finally realized you included Pittsburgh because I’ve confused Pennsylvania towns. Sorry, everything east of the Mississippi just kinda all blends together for me; I didn’t mean anything by it.