If a leaf leaves leaves, why doesn't a calf calve calves?

If a leaf leaves leaves, why doesn't a calf calve calves?

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11 Comments

Quicky@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y

Because cows calve calves

Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 1y

A leaf doesn't leave leaves, so the initial premise is wrong.

Greg@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 1y (3 replies)

How does a leaf leaves leaves? What am I missing here?

INeedMana@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

There's a bunch of leaves. Wind blows. One leaf gets blown away. It leaves the leaves

Haiku version:
There’s a bunch of leaves
Wind blows. One gets blown away
It leaves the leaves

Greg@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

Thank you and nice haiku

Szyler@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

It's a showerthought about the English spellings being fucked.

You read read as read, and not as read.

ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com · 6 pts · 1y

And yet the woodchuck still chucks wood...

not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo... I'm not sure how many I'm supposed to write, did I do enough yet?

INeedMana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Because no no no

DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y

A tree leaves leaves like a cow calves calves.

DmMacniel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y

Because that's how you wash your Reaver Speer.