Maybe the joke is that if you pretend to be able to read it by not acting confused by the weird gibberish, then anyone can tell that you can’t read
(The)m (a)r(e) snakes!
(The)m (a)r(e) not!
O(h), (ye)s (Th)a[sic](y) (a)r(e)
(See)(The)m (itty)b(itty)(eye)s
(Wel)l, I b(e)
(The)m (a)r(e) snakes!EDIT: What’s hilarious is that in my neck of the woods I learned this as “ducks” instead of “snakes” almost almost 40 years ago at this point.
Apparently growing up rural America is vastly different to rural Australia, this is absoulte gobeldygook to me.
I guess that just means I’m fluent in bogan and untested with redneck
Another translation:
Em ar snakes!
Em ar not!
Oh es ay ar.
See em eedy beedy eyes?EL, I be…
Em ar snakes.Feels like it would’ve been easier to guess if it’d been clear that it was a conversation. No one expects a sign to be talking to itself.
Yeah, exactly. I also don’t know how common it is in other languages for slang/shorthand to match letter/word sounds. This is probably in the same bucket as languages having different animal sounds.
It’s a realistic monologue for a stream of consciousness
Mister Snakes!
Fucking lib!
In Cornish
MR 🕷️ MR
RM
S MR CDBDIS
The quiet rage building inside me as I try and fail to disbelieve you
I love how your comment has more likes than the post does. XD I grew up in farmland Utah, I speak redneck, and you did a darn good job. 😁
Yeah, ducks here too. And yeah, about 40 years ago.
I still say it out of habit when I see ducks… M R Ducks
The hero we all needed
Whale oil beef hooked! MR ducks!
i think I’m more confused now
I also learned a version that was “LMNO Snakes” (Hell, ‘em ain’ no snakes)
How it would actually go down:
It’s a haiku relating to the famous court case between Mr S Nakes and Mr N Ot, as represented by his lawyer Oscar Zamebdis (common misspelling) who liberated Mr Nakes from participating in a reading test due to his sunburn.
The watermark of circles in the background reference how much he won in the settlement
Would have been better if the letters were properly spaced
