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how is prangent formed

J.T. SexkikCited 5× on HN, 2023–2026
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comedy · general · evergreen · 2023–2026 on HN

A short comedy video reading out a famously misspelled Yahoo! Answers question about pregnancy over music.

Referenced as a legendary internet joke, usually when misspellings or Yahoo Answers come up.

5 comments from Hacker News

@dlcarrier2026-06 · in “The First Website Killed by Google: Their Online Answer Marketplace”

It would be a great place to discuss, pergnancy, pregananancy, prgnency, pargnanciy, and so on: ▶ this video Also, how baby is formed: link

@epiccoleman2023-11 · in “Show HN: Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop”

The inability of AI images to spell has always amused me, and it's especially funny here. I got a special kick out "IDEDA ENGINEEER" and "BUZSTEAND." The image where the one guy's hat just says "HISPANIC" is also oddly hilarious. Idk what it is, but I have a special soft spot for humor based around odd spelling (this video still makes me laugh years later: ▶ this video ).

@rvba2023-07 · in “Show HN: Throw – A space for asking and answering questions anonymously”

How do you defend the service against answers copied from chatGPT? How do you defend against trolls? And how do you distinguish them from genuinely stupid people? ▶ this video What do you do with all the teenagers (?) asking "questions" about sex?

@olidoc2023-04 · in “Am I Pregante?”

Hello, Hacker News community! I recently created a small but enjoyable web game called 'Am I...?', inspired by a legendary YouTube video ▶ this video Features: Randomly generated misspellings for endless fun A score counter that tracks your progress I developed this game using Flask, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It's been a great learning experience, and I hope you find it entertaining as well.

@agentwiggles2023-01 · in “English as She Is Spoke”

I find that grammar perversions like this have a direct line to my funny bone in a way that almost nothing else does. Must have something to do with the subversion of expectation with something so incredibly basic as language. Even after seeing it many times, this old classic still makes me laugh: ▶ this video