You š¬š§ folks can be mad about how we pronounce āhoverā, but at least we donāt absolutely butcher ārouterā.
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@caseyliss And yet you put periods and commas outside quotation marks. Next youāll be putting an āsā on the end of āmath.ā
@drdrang @caseyliss this is one of those cases I know is āwrongā, but doesnāt make sense to me, so I refuse to participate.
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folks can be mad about how we pronounce āhoverā, but at least we donāt absolutely butcher ārouterā.Seriously, how in the hell did you get ārooterā from ārouterāā½
@caseyliss The American pronunciation in my work that really bothers me: Tinnitus (Should be tin-ih-tus not tin-ay-tus or /ĖtÉŖnÉŖtÉs/ if you want the IPA).
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@caseyliss The American pronunciation in my work that really bothers me: Tinnitus (Should be tin-ih-tus not tin-ay-tus or /ĖtÉŖnÉŖtÉs/ if you want the IPA).
@Tirial I want to pronounce it tin-eye-tus, but yeah, apparently tinuh-tus is the norm?
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@Tirial I want to pronounce it tin-eye-tus, but yeah, apparently tinuh-tus is the norm?
@caseyliss At this point, both are in use, but the short āIā is correct. The root (see what I did there) word is from latin, so it maintains the latin stress, hence tin-ih-tus. In a bit of fun, the first written use of the word we have is from Pliny The Elder. Alsoā¦ donāt do any of the things he suggests to cure it.
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folks can be mad about how we pronounce āhoverā, but at least we donāt absolutely butcher ārouterā.Seriously, how in the hell did you get ārooterā from ārouterāā½
@caseyliss Dude, now try growing up in one country, moving to another for 13 years, and then to another for 13 years and counting. Throw in moving between TX & DE for good measure. All English speaking countries. All with different words (meanings) for the same things and very different pronunciations.
My accent and vocabulary doesn't know its ass/arse from its elbow.
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@drdrang Thatās the programmer in me ā the comma is not part of āhoverā but part of the enclosing sentence. Itās a scope issue.
@caseyliss I suspect everyone whoās programmed thinks that way. For me, itās a challenge to follow the American convention, which is why I do it.
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@drdrang @caseyliss Casey was telling me only this week that he was broadly in favour of metric units.
@jamesthomson @caseyliss Thatās the saddest thing Iāve ever heard.
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@jamesthomson @caseyliss Thatās the saddest thing Iāve ever heard.
@drdrang @caseyliss I think it means we're finally getting through to him.
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@caseyliss And yet you put periods and commas outside quotation marks. Next youāll be putting an āsā on the end of āmath.ā
@drdrang @caseyliss so mathematics get shortened to maths. And statistics gets shortened to stats. Logical to me.
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@drdrang @caseyliss I think it means we're finally getting through to him.
@jamesthomson Imperial units are moronic. Except Fahrenheit which is unimpeachably the better unit for ambient air temps.
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@drdrang @caseyliss I think it means we're finally getting through to him.
@jamesthomson @drdrang @caseyliss Everyone knows that the metric system is objectively better. Itās just that people donāt like change. āThe metric system is the tool of the devil. My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and thatās the way I likes itā
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@jamesthomson Imperial units are moronic. Except Fahrenheit which is unimpeachably the better unit for ambient air temps.
@jamesthomson cc @drdrang who I meant to copy
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@jamesthomson Imperial units are moronic. Except Fahrenheit which is unimpeachably the better unit for ambient air temps.
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@jamesthomson Imperial units are moronic. Except Fahrenheit which is unimpeachably the better unit for ambient air temps.
@caseyliss @jamesthomson 30 is hot
20 is nice
10 is cold
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