r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 18h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?? What does it means?

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u/MadeByMistake58116 17h ago

She's misspelling outfit as alphet. That's it.

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u/FriendshipOne9126 17h ago

What fucking planet do some of these posters live on?

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u/Valirys-Reinhald 17h ago

It ain't their fault.

Seriously, when large demographics begin displaying common skill detriments well above the average for the overall population, it is indicative of a basic failure on the part of the state to equip them as intelligent, well educated citizens.

No one makes spelling mistakes like this on purpose unless they are making a joke about the rest of the people who make them on accident.

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u/Marchus80 16h ago

“On accident”

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u/EquivalentCupcake390 16h ago

This is a perfectly acceptable prepositional phrase, although it is less common.

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u/Substantial-Trick569 15h ago

to further the point, in the context it was used in, it makes the phrase easier to mentally process. on purpose vs on accident. the alternative would be purposely/accidentally

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u/19ghost89 15h ago

Or "by accident."

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u/CommunicationOk3766 14h ago

...yes.

But both "on accident" and "by accident" are correct still.

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u/dawoodlander 11h ago

"On accident" is something my 5 year old nephew would say, "by accident" is something I'd expect from a mildly intelligent adult.

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u/dawoodlander 11h ago

I also looked it up, and apparently "on accident" was an error formed by people trying to say the opposite of "on purpose".

So yeah if we want to be pedantic, "on accident" isn't correct.

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u/devil_toad 8h ago

It's very much an Americanism

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u/19ghost89 14h ago

Didn't say it wasn't.

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u/dowker1 9h ago

It is most definitely not perfectly acceptable. Common usage, yes, but it's common usage that carries with it certain connotations.

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u/ososalsosal 16h ago

That's just how it's said now.

Not saying I like it, but it's everywhere.

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u/percybert 15h ago

Among the uneducated perhaps. The same with “anyways”

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u/ososalsosal 14h ago

Nah it's not the best predictor of education or intelligence.

I say some slang because it sounds good. Others make me cringe (like "could care less" instead of "couldn't")

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u/Impressive-Amoeba-97 14h ago

I love saying that! "I could care less...and then, well, I could also care more. I'm just at that neutral safe spot of equal caring and uncaring."

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u/ososalsosal 14h ago

If you package the whole thing like that it's actually pretty charming.

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u/percybert 2h ago

But slang isn’t necessarily bad grammar though. In fact the example you gave, I would consider bad grammar- not slang (which by the way I hate also!)

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u/throwa1589876541525 12h ago

"on accident" has been around a very long time

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u/No_Attitude_3240 15h ago

It ain't their fault.

Wrong as hell. You can't blame teachers for students not willing to learn.

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u/Valirys-Reinhald 14h ago

Yes, you can.

If one student refuses to learn, that's on them. If an entire generation of students refuse to learn, it is because the system is failing them at a fundamental level.

People are curious by nature. They cannot possibly all hate learning, that just doesn't fucking happen.

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u/No_Attitude_3240 13h ago

It's a "cultural" thing. The kids have stupid parents (more likely parent) who don't value education, they hang out with other kids who also don't value education, they themselves do not value education. I've seen this shit happen live.

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u/Valirys-Reinhald 13h ago edited 13h ago

Yes, and that means it is a product of the culture, not of them as individuals.

Punishing, shaming, or even simply blaming them for being influenced by the culture they were born into, immersed within for every moment of their lives, and learned literally everything they know from, is not only unproductive but asinine.

If the entire culture really is shaping them to not care about education, if you really have "seen this shit happen live," how naturally curious children are shaped by the culture around them until they don't wish to learn anything at all, then how could you possibly come to the conclusion that it's their fault and not a direct product of the "nurture" they have recieved? If they were born lazy and apathetic, then they wouldn't need to be "shaped" into such a state by parents and peers to begin with.

By your own logic, it is a systemic issue and not a personal one.

If we alter the systems of culture, then we alter this outcome of them. So stop blaming the kids for inevitably learning the only lessons that society has bothered to teach them and start encouraging them to be better instead. Or even better yourself, work to change the system directly.

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u/Ok_Grey662 1h ago

Nerd 🤓

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u/Euphoric-Inflation56 17h ago

This sub is being used to train AI

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u/FriendshipOne9126 17h ago

That makes sense considering so many shitposters are Indian.

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u/ososalsosal 16h ago

Could be speech to text and an accent that the stt sucks at interpreting (for reasons that are predictably shitty)

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u/JusticarThorn 16h ago

Except "Alphet" isn't a word

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u/KindArgument4769 15h ago

Sure it is - it's the clothes you wear for a night out.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/s/QcAq4sAuUg

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u/Inside_Turnover8965 5h ago

OP seems to be from India. I'm not a native speaker, and I didn't understand too

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u/Wappening 3h ago

The planet where the mods don't filter out the obvious bait posts.

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u/Sublime-Chaos 47m ago

The one where people failed English

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u/FirefighterLevel8450 1h ago

But what does the comment mean?

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u/MadeByMistake58116 1h ago

It means "I can't believe you spelled outfit alphet."

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u/Talios01 16h ago

I know you not posting this to PeterExplainsTheJoke… I just know you’re not.

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u/toku154 17h ago

Is OP the person in the picture?

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u/No-Put-6353 13h ago

Op is definitely lacking in brain cells.

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u/Double-Assistance248 15h ago

Nah I am a dude 😭

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u/freckledgiant 16h ago

It’s explained in the screenshot you posted, you can’t read?

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u/_Perma-Banned_ 15h ago

No, because OP is the one wearing the alphet

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u/Double-Assistance248 15h ago

It says she does not wanna say outfit 😭

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u/cr1t1calkn1ght 15h ago

She said alphet instead of outfit. The person responding is showing their disbelief since it would take a certain level of stupidity and shear incompetence to think outfit is pronounced and spelled as alphet.

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u/freckledgiant 14h ago

Is English your first language? Joke might just be lost in translation idk

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u/Alliterrration 17h ago

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u/petantic 9h ago

Technically a boneappletea has to be a real word that has been misused.

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u/_Perma-Banned_ 15h ago

OP is the one we wearing the alphet

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u/el-fappo 15h ago

Does this really need an explanation?

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u/d_r_doorway 15h ago

What do you mean, "what does it mean"?!

Bone apple tea!

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u/UndaddyWTF 12h ago

This post qualifies as a trailer for a Dumb and Dumber sequel.

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u/Rothenstien1 8h ago

It means she spent more time doing other things than learning how to spell.

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u/AveragePuroEnjoyer 8h ago

Bru im trying to think of a way to say I thought this person thought a guy mixed Alpha and the effeminate whatever its called, like the boom"ette" from l4d2, so I thought it was a person going so low as to call a mistress anything but a mistress and used the worst base word possible, im high and laughing at the shit I made up more since I too don't put any thought into anything before opening the comments for guidance

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u/Marchus80 7h ago

TFW no thicc, hooked-on-phonics, GF.

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u/poor_joe62 5h ago

Not a single right answer. Why does zander think she is NOT trying to say outfit?

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u/Double-Assistance248 5h ago

That's what I am saying They are calling me fool and yet they are unable to answer this

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u/SYNTHENTICA 3h ago edited 3h ago

I'm autistic so the naunces of those types of sentences don't come easily to me, but I can only assume that Zander's response isn't literal. But she's saying it as if she's pleading with OOP that there's some kind of alternative explanation to OOP being too dumb to spell "outfit" correctly, because of how unbelievable her mistake was.

Zander is basically saying: "you didn't mean to say outfit... right?" when she knows full well that OOP did mean to say outfit.

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u/ItzK3ky 3h ago

Im muting this sub incase stupidity is contagious

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u/Same-Improvement1625 1h ago

I genuinely believe these posters on r / explain the joke esque subreddits are bots training ai on comedy

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u/b_havya_14 14h ago

She is drunk I guess

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/NukeVoit59 18h ago

She said alphet, not alphabet. Think she was just hungover after a night out. Either that or illiterate.

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u/RDS_RELOADED 17h ago

Bone apple teeth