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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hmmm, which one? I'm going to paddle around in my kāy-nō?, or The lava from that vol-ka-ˈnew might cover the village!

[–] therandoe@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think there's a joke about vul-canoes and vulverines in here somewhere that result in canoes with claws. I just can't quite find it.

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"vulverines" sounds more like genitals with claws.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

And from vulvarines, we can get to vulvamarine, where there has to be some kind of cunnilingus joke.

[–] retrolasered@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago

Or clawing genitals

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Give it a few hours, someone's bound to come up with it.

[–] boblin 6 points 2 years ago

Why not both?

[–] stanka@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not doing research here while being an internet expert. But more people are killed every year in canoe-related incidents than volcano related incidents.

[–] Eylrid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mildly related fact: More people die of drowning every year than have ever died from nuclear incidents including Nagasaki and Hiroshima

[–] stanka@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

As a man of history would not use the term incident to describe those wartime actions.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Technically, cancer caused by cosmic rays is also a nuclear incident.

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Bing helped me put together the mental image I got from this post.

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But which one will we be mispronouncing?

Canoes = kay-noes?

Volcanoes = vahl cuh noos?

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

TIL canoes isn't pronounced kay-noes like volcanoes... English why do you keep bamboozling me 😩

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because English isn't a language, it's a goon in a trench-coat that lures other languages into dark alleys and beats them down to steal spare grammar.

Canoe comes from Caribbean indigenous words through Spanish and Volcano comes from ancient Latin and Roman religion.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And are vol-canoes flying canoes?

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

Well the old West Norse 'völlr' means field, so "vol-canoe" would roughly be field-canoe, or land-boat...

So maybe a tractor?

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

You're thinking of flyaks, or possibly skyaks.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where do douche-canoes fit in on the danger spectrum?

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well that's French for shower canoes

And everyone knows not to mess with the French, lest they hit you with their baguettes

Ergo super dangerous

QED

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm drunk btw