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by nikolay 399 days ago
Really?!

  man - brain = woman
  woman - brain = businesswoman
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nxa 399 days ago
I probably should have prefaced this with "try at your own risk, results don't reflect the author's opinions"
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dmonitor 399 days ago
I'm sure it would be trivial to get it to say something incredibly racist, so that's probably a worthwhile disclaimer to put on the website
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dalmo3 399 days ago
I think subtraction is broken. None of what I tried made any sense. Water - oxygen = gin and tonic.
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sapphicsnail 399 days ago
Telling that Jewess, feminist, and spinster were near matches as well.
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karel-3d 399 days ago
woman+penis=newswoman (businesswoman is second)

man+vagina=woman (ok that is boring)

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2muchcoffeeman 399 days ago
Man - brain = Irish sea
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nikolay 399 days ago
Case matters, obviously! Try "man" with a lower-case "M"!
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Alifatisk 399 days ago
Why does case matter? How does it affect the meaning?
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bfLives 399 days ago
“Man” is probably being interpreted as the Isle of Man.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man

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G1N 399 days ago
Man (capital M) is probably being interpreted as some proper noun, maybe Isle of Man in this case?
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