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Is the word "lurn" in the phrase "It's time to lurn together" just an intentional misspelling of "learn" or does it have another meaning here?

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T-Shirt with phrase 'It's time to lurn together'

Herr_Schwabullek
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Most people familiar with the language would recognise that lurn is not an English word.

                     It's time to lurn together...

..in one-word, it's being enter image description here.

Incidentally, if you google "lurn", you get a result similar to "learn.

Misti
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"Learn" is this context is intentionally misspelled to add humor to the context. It shows that they have much left to learn since they misspelled the word "learn" itself.

Khalid Hussain
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I think "lurn" is an intentional misspelling of "learn".

thelogix
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    It isn't slang, just an intentional misspelling, as you say. – TimR Apr 02 '15 at 13:35
  • Lets call it "Internet slang" then :). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_slang – thelogix Apr 02 '15 at 14:12
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    Link us to an example of "lurn" as "internet slang", please. If you'll do that I can upvote. –  Apr 02 '15 at 14:22
  • @LittleEva, i can't, but http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/internet-slang explicitly lists "intentional misspellings". And we see examples all the time, with famous misspellings like "Teh", "Can i haz sum cheezburgers" or "dat gurl". I think "lurn" for "learn" is excactly in this category. – thelogix Apr 02 '15 at 14:50
  • You may be correct, then again, "lurn" may be more "T-shirt" slang then internet slang. –  Apr 02 '15 at 14:56
  • Hmm. .Maybe.. But it does look like it would fit perfectly in the "I haz lurned to make cheezburgerz" sentence.. Then again, who says "t-shirt" slang isn't just Internet slang on a t-shirt. Well. anyway, it is not that important to the answering of the original question, so ill rephrase it again. – thelogix Apr 02 '15 at 15:05
  • I'm trying to help your answer out, here. Sure, it "would fit" But is it established fact? Or is it supposition? Back up the assertion or you have only the assertion. :-) –  Apr 02 '15 at 16:51
  • @LittleEva I'm not in opposition. There is no proof to offer, safe for writing to the author of the t-shirt and asking. And even then, will there be room for ambiguity. Yet the misspelling is most likely intentional, yet unprovable, and it follows the semantics of internet slang, but is not proven to be internet slang. So how to convey this, without making false assertions? Maybe i cant. Should i just write "lurn may be an intentional misspelling of learn, for humorous purposes" and leave out everything else? – thelogix Apr 02 '15 at 17:29
  • If its "my opinion" without citation to authority then I will usually admit that by saying, IMO or something to that effect. My encouragement to cite support is because your answer stands a better chance of garnering positive upvotes when it is a supported assertion. –  Apr 02 '15 at 17:34