The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoYou have to see itlemmy.worldimagemessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1902arrow-down113
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minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·6 months agoYes, they forgot the apostrophe, so the Dad took “Have you seen the dogs bowl?” to mean “Have you seen the dogs go bowling?”
minus-squarezweieuro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-26 months agoOohhh OK, now I get it. I was missing that ‘bowl’ is short for bowling.
minus-squarethen_three_more@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-26 months agoYou could also read it as a vowel. (in bowling) to roll a ball along a smooth surface during a game of bowls or bowling (in Cricket) to throw a ball towards a batsman (= the player who hits the ball) using a vertical circular movement of the arm while running: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bowl
minus-squarepipes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoIt’s not short for bowling (although it can be expressed like that too), it’s the infinitive form of the verb, to bowl. “Have you seen the birds fly?”
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·6 months agoWhile that gives the response more legitimacy, dads don’t actually care about the grammar and will make a smart ass response just based on how the question sounds.
Yes, they forgot the apostrophe, so the Dad took “Have you seen the dogs bowl?” to mean “Have you seen the dogs go bowling?”
Oohhh OK, now I get it. I was missing that ‘bowl’ is short for bowling.
You could also read it as a vowel.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bowl
It’s not short for bowling (although it can be expressed like that too), it’s the infinitive form of the verb, to bowl. “Have you seen the birds fly?”
While that gives the response more legitimacy, dads don’t actually care about the grammar and will make a smart ass response just based on how the question sounds.