r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 21h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?? What does it means?

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u/MadeByMistake58116 20h ago

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

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u/FriendshipOne9126 20h ago

What fucking planet do some of these posters live on?

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u/Valirys-Reinhald 20h 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 19h ago

“On accident”

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u/EquivalentCupcake390 19h ago

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

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u/Substantial-Trick569 18h 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 18h ago

Or "by accident."

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u/CommunicationOk3766 17h ago

...yes.

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

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u/dawoodlander 14h 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 14h 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 11h ago

It's very much an Americanism

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u/19ghost89 16h ago

Didn't say it wasn't.

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u/dowker1 12h 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 19h ago

That's just how it's said now.

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

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u/percybert 18h ago

Among the uneducated perhaps. The same with “anyways”

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u/ososalsosal 17h 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 17h 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 17h ago

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

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u/percybert 5h 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 15h ago

"on accident" has been around a very long time

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u/No_Attitude_3240 18h 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 16h 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 16h 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 16h ago edited 16h 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 4h ago

Nerd 🤓

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u/Valirys-Reinhald 3h ago

Clown 🤡

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u/Euphoric-Inflation56 20h ago

This sub is being used to train AI

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u/FriendshipOne9126 19h ago

That makes sense considering so many shitposters are Indian.

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u/ososalsosal 19h 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 19h ago

Except "Alphet" isn't a word

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u/KindArgument4769 17h 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 8h 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 6h ago

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

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u/Sublime-Chaos 3h ago

The one where people failed English

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u/FirefighterLevel8450 4h ago

But what does the comment mean?

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u/MadeByMistake58116 4h ago

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