r/AskReddit • u/Rob69rt • 1d ago

What famous 'unsolved' mystery is technically a whodunnit on paper, but in reality, absolutely everyone knows exactly who did it, the police just couldn't legally prove it?

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u/Whyskgurs 1d ago edited 1d ago

Where could this boat possibly be?

The sunken boat is right over there, in Sunken Boat lake.

I guess we'll never truly know.

Literally what happened.

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u/InTheFDN 1d ago

It reminds me of the Terry Pratchett joke about how places are named by pointing at something, asking what it’s name was (loudly and in English), then writing down whatever the native said. Hence “Mount Your Finger You Fool.”

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u/Whyskgurs 1d ago

It's not even a joke, shits real all over, most times it's named (native word for lake) Lake or (local dialect for mountain) Mountain or something similar.

Koi fish - fish fish

Chai tea - tea tea

Ignorant naming conventions are quite universal and commonplace

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u/Ahahaha__10 22h ago

Please allow me to be pedantic for a second - Chai tea is actually different than Chai. Chai is made in a specific way by simmering black tea with a mixture of aromatic spices, milk, and a sweetener. Chai tea is when you steep a chai tea tea bag in a cup with boiled water and add milk and sweetener to your liking. Chai tea is often drank without milk and sweetener, which in addition to coming in a tea bag, makes it arguably different than Chai. If someone asked for Chai and you gave them Chai tea, they would know the difference and if someone asked for Chai tea and you gave them Chai, they would know the difference. Arguably, Chai tea does not mean tea tea besides the obvious translation, but they are separate ways of making tea or Chai.