The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 个月前You have to see itlemmy.worldimagemessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1636
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minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 个月前Yes, 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-up11·edit-23 个月前Oohhh OK, now I get it. I was missing that ‘bowl’ is short for bowling.
minus-squarethen_three_more@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 个月前You 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-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 个月前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.
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
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.