Source: https://xkcd.com/2839/
Explain XKCD: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2839
Title text: My first words were 'These were my first words; what were yours?'
Reads comic.
Goes back to count how many words are in the comic.
Twist: he knows more than 12 words, he just didn’t learn the right number
Yeah, I immediately thought of that scene in the West Wing.
President Josiah Bartlet : Sweden has a 100% literacy rate, Leo. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry : Well, maybe they don’t and they also can’t count
Actually, I’ve always had a rather extensive vocabulary, not to mention a phenomenal grasp of grammar and a superlative command of syntax. I simply chose not to employ them.
THESE WORDS ARE ACCEPTED.
Is that a stormlight archive reference?
It’d be so much weirder if it wasn’t.
Used every word he had to make that sentence
There are now two ____.
of them
wuggles
Didnt’ forget this time!
Hopefully I did that correctly
How do you count to twelve without knowing the other numbers?
Who learns twelve before one through eleven?