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- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 20 hours ago:
According to the international phonetic alphabet they’re the same sound.
Here is the IPA for drink: dɹɪŋk
Here is the IPA for jury: d͡ʒʊɹi
Mainly it’s noticeable for spanish speakers because the spanish D is pronounced closer to the english th or is unvoiced depending on where it is in a word.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 22 hours ago:
I’ve had to train my ear because I learned to speak spanish so I notice these things with my friends who are learning english.
The one that broke my mind the other day is that the D in drink is pronounced like a J. My friend was practicing his D sounds and came up with that out of the blue.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 day ago:
Sit close to me vs close the door
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 day ago:
Even the second one isn’t pronounced the same. Some accents drop the th sound in clothes which is why they can sound similar.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 day ago:
Having to explain to my spanish speaking friends why an english word is spelled one way but pronounced another entirely different way gave me the same experience. So many times i have to tell them: “i don’t know english is just weird.”
- Comment on For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value. 2 days ago:
Act 1 is a chore to get through on replay.
Good news is if you have the DLC you can skip the first act. The DLC start puts you in front of the Church in Pacifica after fighting Placide.
I like Cyberpunk a lot but replayability is shallow like you say. Sometimes I just boot it up to punch npcs though. Make a gorilla arms build and go ham. It’s pretty cathartic.
- Comment on Just Me saying hello 4 days ago:
Why try to act like an AI photo is you?
The headboard has a Mona Lisa horizon going on and the right hand has the classic AI weird hand pose.
- Comment on The country is done for 1 week ago:
I agree. Let’s also reintroduce thorn and wynn. Digraphs suck.
- Comment on The country is done for 1 week ago:
Mexicans are americans.
Colombians are americans.
Brazilians are americans.
Unitedstates-ians are americans.
It’s funny because spanish doesn’t have this problem. They call the people from the US estadounidenses which basically is unitedstates-ian.
- Comment on The country is done for 1 week ago:
Lets go back to the old way of pronouncing Q also. It’s now pronounced like “coo”.
- Comment on The country is done for 1 week ago:
I’ve heard people say Jay Zed. I’ve also heard Zed Zed Top.
Language is weird.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 2 weeks ago:
Calculators are similar to a Dark Souls game.
If that were true then mashing buttons on your calculator would prevent any inputs from being processed for a few seconds.
Fromsoft believes in punishing button-mashers.
- Comment on Having $270 billion dollars and spending the bulk of your time trying to make more money is like weighing 900 pounds and thinking "ooh, I bet I can get to 1000". 3 weeks ago:
spend all that money in a lifetime
In hundreds of thousands of lifetimes. 1,000,000 per year is a stupid amount of money to live on. If you “only” spent $1,000,000 a year you could live on 250billion for 250,000 years. That isn’t including any interest accrued.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 3 weeks ago:
I grew up in Maine. Deer in the road isn’t an edge case there. It’s more like a nightly occurrence.
- Comment on You have a bad friend if he isn't willing to help you bury a dead body or if he is willing to help you. 3 weeks ago:
My best friend is Victor Frankenstein is how I read it.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
Cereal towering over everyone trying to stay inconspicuous during that scene always cracks me up.
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 3 weeks ago:
Short form content ruins people’s attention span. I’ll pass.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses
- Comment on Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals? 4 weeks ago:
Excessive laxative use is a thing bulimics sometimes do. It will ruin your insides so probably not a good idea.
- Comment on Did you know that you could block communities you don't like on lemmy instead of spamming downvotes? 4 weeks ago:
I may have been spouting a bit of hyperbole but it sure seems like a once a week complaint.
- Comment on Did you know that you could block communities you don't like on lemmy instead of spamming downvotes? 4 weeks ago:
No, i block kanye subs and other subs that i don’t agree with or dislike the content. I just am sick and tired of every week someone complaining about downvotes.
- Comment on Did you know that you could block communities you don't like on lemmy instead of spamming downvotes? 4 weeks ago:
If it’s a kanye fan who cares? They can get bent. For everyone else it doesn’t matter. Downvotes are at most a few votes out of 50-100 or more. It’s like getting mad at a party because 99 people loved the party but one guy hated the color of the cake and wrote you a letter about it.
- Comment on Did you know that you could block communities you don't like on lemmy instead of spamming downvotes? 4 weeks ago:
Downvotes don’t matter. They mean nothing. A downvote only hurts your pride. Ignore them and move on. Asking about them and trying to figure out why people downvote is a path to madness.
- Comment on People assume that the secrets of the universe will be revealed to them in an afterlife, but you might just remain your same dumb self and have to spend eternity going to church. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bike Manufacturers Are Making Bikes Less Repairable 5 weeks ago:
Not really. It’s one of the trek ones. Fuel if I had to guess off memory and looking at pics.
- Comment on Bike Manufacturers Are Making Bikes Less Repairable 5 weeks ago:
I’m a daily downhill biker and i’ve only encountered that on cheap bikes. Anything over $1000 or so has the newest standards which don’t often change.
I agree with all the ebike stuff. even though i don’t ride one i have friend that do and make similar complaints.
- Comment on Scientific Method 5 weeks ago:
Data should move to a country that lacks the phonemes to properly pronounce your name (looking at you Spanish and your piddly 5 vowel sounds). You end up just answering to anything that sounds similar.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 1 month ago:
Brain of Theseus.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
I prefer the male voice but the female voice is more emotive. Plus the female avatar gets a nice story with Judy.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
They changed a lot, but in a good way. I had also spent a while away from the game and came back recently for the expansion. It’s really good.
I would suggest starting a new character from scratch if you pick up the DLC. You’ll really appreciate the new changes to cyberwear that way.
