Thank you. I thunk it up myself.

[Glizdka]

This is my attempt at humor.

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A: [something clever]
B: Wow! That was really clever.
A: Thank you. I thunk it up myself.

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Do you approve of using thunk for humoristic purposes here?

 

[GoesStation]

It's better to avoid non-standard usages entirely until you achieve a near-native level of fluency. They can sound really stupid on foreign lips.

 

[Skrej]

It's used that way occasionally in my region, and I've been known to say it myself.


I think we've talked about Greg Brown before, but he has a song called "Who woulda thunk it", although he's not trying to be humorous with it.

 

[Glizdka]

It's better to avoid non-standard usages entirely until you achieve a near-native level of fluency. They can sound really stupid on foreign lips.

That's why I'm asking. I encountered thunk a few weeks ago. After I did some research, I learned it's a non-standard version used in some regional dialects, but it's also used for "humoristic purposes".

I wanted to check if I understood how this "humor" might work.

 

[GoesStation]

That's why I'm asking. I encountered thunk a few weeks ago. After I did some research, I learned it's a non-standard version used in some regional dialects, but it's also used for "humoristic purposes".

I wanted to check if I understood how this "humor" might work.

It works okay.

 

[SoothingDave]

Stick to the common phrase "who'da thunk it?" (Who would have thunk it.)

One could argue that your sentence uses the wrong tense, assuming a think/thank/thunk conjugation.

 

[GoesStation]

I've never heard "thank" as an alternative past simple of "think". The sentence looks natural to me, in a jocular context.