Usernameblankface@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-219 days agoTo refer casually to white men's briefs, is it Tidy Whities or Tightly Whities?message-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up18arrow-down1message-squareTo refer casually to white men's briefs, is it Tidy Whities or Tightly Whities?Usernameblankface@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-219 days agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-text
They sound the same, which way is it spelled? Edit, it’s the underwear that is white in this question.
minus-squareOisteink@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoOP writes «white men’s briefs» while it’s clearly about white men’s briefs
minus-squareUsernameblankface@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·19 days agoYeah, that word choice can unfortunately work perfectly in 2 ways. I meant white underwear in the briefs style
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-219 days agoDamn, if only we had some sort of way to symbolize things like this. Maybe small characters we could add to sentences to, i dunno, indicate the way things are related. lol
minus-squareCousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoThere are like a trillion ways to word this: white briefs for men briefs for men that are white white-colored men’s briefs
minus-squaresnooggums@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-218 days ago white-colored men’s briefs Move the hypen to start trouble…
OP writes «white men’s briefs» while it’s clearly about white men’s briefs
Yeah, that word choice can unfortunately work perfectly in 2 ways. I meant white underwear in the briefs style
Damn, if only we had some sort of way to symbolize things like this. Maybe small characters we could add to sentences to, i dunno, indicate the way things are related. lol
There are like a trillion ways to word this:
Move the hypen to start trouble…