Comment on YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation

jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meaning?

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  • jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well that makes no sense. If your view is that “it’s an acronym or it isn’t” then you pronounce it as individual letters or as a word. But the reality of language is much messier than arbitrary rules people come up with. If people pronounce it as if it’s a word in its own right, that means that’s how it works. Just as with laws of physics, if what we observe contradicts the rule, the rule was wrong.

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      • jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What rule? I just go by what I read in the 90s about what the creators thought.

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      • jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• monogram@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jay-Phegg

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah well jayphegg yourself buddy

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    • monogram@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not your buddy friend

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        well okay i guess i’ll send the cookout invitation to OOP then

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  • jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • monogram@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No: JPEG, the P is for Photo.

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      • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I pronounce that as gay peg

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