You grew up with it. Imagine having to learn it

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Queue and cue sound like Q, which is pronounced kyew.

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• Jimbabwe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Set does not have 400+ meanings, fuck these linguistic posers

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  • GoldenDeLorean@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re right, it has 401+ meanings.

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• callyral@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I usually misspell pronunciation as pronounciation

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TIttLe!

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  • axexrx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is dotting your i’s tittilating?

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  • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I always thought it was “titie”

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  • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I could be wrong, but I think a jot is the middle slash for lowercase Ts and Fs.

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• foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I thought "fuck: had the most set meanings…

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  • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For those learning English I always wondered if there was an extensive list of English slang with all the various ways the word “fuck” is used

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    • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You absorbe the slang mostly by watching popular media and listening pop music.

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    • CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      enlish swearing is too simple for that

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• gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  World seems to learn English pretty well enough 🤷‍♀️

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