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People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?
  • As a German myself who tried to learn French a while ago, I gave up because that language has the same issue, but the genders for nouns are different and I just can't be bothered to memorize two different genders for every noun 💀

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  • Noooooo ;-;

    Maybe those will be exceptions, and it counts those like the hair on top of my head, my eyebrows etc? Or I just need to make sure I take the no hair pill first, and then the other one lol

  • What is your current wallpaper? Where did you find it?
  • I've had this one since December 2020, I saw it on the Genshin Impact subreddit a few months after release :)

    (Also, can anyone tell me how to have images in comments without the URL there, just the image being fully loaded right away?)

  • English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense
  • As a German, I'm pretty sure they're right. Look into glottal stop, it's not really a long pause or anything. Think of the difference of the connection of "Spiegel" and "ei" in Spiegelei, and "Schreiner" and "ei" in Schreinerei. It's this short contraction that stops airflow and then releases it again, and it's present at the beginning of the "ei" in Spiegelei, but not in Schreinerei.

    Here's also the IPA pronunciations from Wiktionary:

    Spiegelei: [ˈʃpiːɡl̩ˌʔaɪ̯]

    Schreinerei: [ʃʁaɪ̯nəˈʁaɪ̯]

    ʔ is the symbol for the glottal stop: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop

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