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Sent this to my wife that’s a speech and language pathologist who will without a doubt not laugh but rather answer the question haha.

Edit: called it lmao

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This only adds another layer to the joke. Beautiful.

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Reminds me of monster house:

Girl: “look! That must be the uvula”

Guy: “ooooooh, so it’s a girl house”

Girl: confused look

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Always pops into mind when a uvula is mentioned.

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I never understood that

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Uvula bears a certain resemblance to the word “vulva”, a term boys are more probably likely to confuse since they lack one.

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I thought it was closer to uterus, and that’s what he was thinking of? A kid that age would be more likely to know that word because of health classes; they don’t teach words like ‘vulva’ (in the US, at least. Too sexual, I guess 🙄) which is why so many people don’t learn there’s a separate word for vulva and vagina until they’re way older.

Either way, though, I too always think of this joke!

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The German word is beautiful, by the way: Gaumenzäpfchen

“Gaumen” is the roof of the mouth (palate).

And a “Zäpfchen” is a small “Zapfen”, which is a thing that protrudes from something, e.g. an icicle is an “Eiszapfen” and a pine cone is a “Tannenzapfen”.

It’s like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it. 🙃

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It’s like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it.

It’s what Germans do, you can’t stop them, they’ll compound compound words until everything is just one biglongsentenceword. Doesn’t work as well in Englisch but w/e

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Japanese usually does similar stuff. It’s the “mouth cover hang” in Japanese 口蓋垂

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It’s the, the, whatchumacallit… *snaps tongue* the uvulva! I’m sure of it.

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Correct. Uvulva. You get 50 points. That first U makes all the difference.

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Awww. U make a difference too

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It’s uvula tho

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You’re that guy, today. Sorry.

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Yeah. I was going off OPs answer to continue a joke (unless they just made a funny typo).

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UwUlva

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Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemuhwem Osas

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I was going to say, I know the answer, but was not sure I could spell it correctly.

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I’m just too got-dang smart. Built different, y’know.

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Wait is this not common knowledge? That’s what the comic seems to imply

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I’d bet this comic is a large part of why it’s more common knowledge now. It’s the reason I looked it up as a kid.

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It seems more common now than when the comic was new

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