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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
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- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
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Wait until you find out that primer, as in a small tutorial or short teaching material, is pronounced with a short i sound like is found in "fin," "mix," and "fringe."
Primmer.
That one really boiled my noodle recently.
that's an american thing, i don't think it's standard in UK english to pronounce "primer" as in an introductory text differently from "primer" as in a substance used to prime explosives or prime materials for painting
Same here in Canada, I've never heard "primmer" in my life, they are all pry-mer.
The fun one here on the Prairies is the name for the black and white sheepdog. Some say call-ie and some say coal-ie. I code switch them depending who I'm talking to, and though I grew up with call-ies I now live in a coal-ie area and that's become my main pronunciation.
It applies to many similar words, however I will never strain my pasta with a coal-ander as that just sounds ridiculous to me.
in french we usually say "border" for collies. It's possible because "border" doesn't mean anything else