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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Again, the weird paraphrasing, is why it's funny. No-one is actually doing it with those exact words except to be funny.

It's like asking someonen to to hang out by saying "could thine be compelled to spend a night in mine company, perhaps during the consumption of sustenance?"

Paraphrasing is the act of saying something with different words. Using unusual, inaccurate, hyperbolic or too many words is a common way to be funny.