r/lovethissmug • u/Specific-Antelope-72 • 25d ago

😻 Meme Or Other Online Trope 😂 Wikipedia's language being unintentionally funny

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u/whiskeytown79 25d ago

Man, I was thrown off by the past tense here. I totally forgot that Pope Francis passed away and we have Pope Leo XIV now.

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u/pro-gram-mer 25d ago

John Paul II was pope for my entire childhood, I completely forgot about Benedict XVI, and Leo has already been pope for almost a year and a half. Sometimes it's hard to keep track of papal turnover.

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u/a_literal_idiot_616 25d ago

i mean it's not that hard, it only happens once every pope's death

(this joke makes no sense in english lmfao)

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u/Sir_Boobsalot 25d ago

put it in the original then. probably more than a few people here who'd get it

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u/a_literal_idiot_616 25d ago

well italians would probably get it anyways even in this version ("una volta ogni morte di papa" is a saying for "once every A LOT OF TIME") (you can imagine all the super original memes in italy after the pope died)