ProstheticBrain

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[–] ProstheticBrain 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can only imagine they're downvoting because they've had a better education than me, or paid more attention in class, or read the Wikipedia entry ten minutes before me.

[–] ProstheticBrain 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I was just learning about this today in response to this post! I had no idea that the definition of a vowel is based on what sound you actually make, rather than it having anything to do with what you write.

It's kind of weird that it's not taught that way in schools. Like, you're just told a/e/I/o/u are the vowels and left to get on with it. Seems to me that could just be changed to "by the way it's a/e/I/o/u/y/w, off you go".

[–] ProstheticBrain 3 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Also by/dry/cry/pry etc. There are loads if you exclude y as a vowel.

[–] ProstheticBrain 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I really didn't want it to be an aKsUAlLy type post. I just thought it was an interesting point to pick up on.

Also, while OPs spelling of the word doesn't make sense to me based on what I've read, it does make sense phonetically. I've heard consome pronounced similarly to "consume".

[–] ProstheticBrain 2 points 1 year ago

If you believe the internet, then "bliss" made quite a bit initially.

[–] ProstheticBrain 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not 100% on this, but I think "consommé" is the French spelling, "consome" is the Mexican one.

In French cookery a consommé is very specifically a clarified broth that goes through several processes and ends up looking like tea. I believe in Mexican cookery, the consome that accompanies birria goes through far fewer processes and so retains more solids and therefore has a different texture/flavour and is more of a gravy.

[–] ProstheticBrain 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the pic windows XP wishes it had on release

[–] ProstheticBrain 10 points 1 year ago

The theory I've heard touted is that the Villanueva trilogy will just follow Paul's story. That arc concludes nicely at the end of Messiah and potentially sets up a 4th installment focusing on the kids if the appetite is still there.

[–] ProstheticBrain 4 points 1 year ago

Ackshually, the quote is

Alas poor Vorik... I didn't know him very Horatio.

[–] ProstheticBrain 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me too buddy, me too... but they will, and I have hope that someone will find a way to do the same thing to the sequels that people have done to the prequels.

Edit: changed my wording

[–] ProstheticBrain 1 points 1 year ago

And that's Everything!

[–] ProstheticBrain 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What I'm getting at is that the way you're talking about the sequels is exactly the way people spoke about the prequels when they came out.

I hated the prequels when they came out, I still think they're basically unwatchable. But they weren't aimed at me, and a whole new generation of SW fans grew up with a deep fondness for them.

I expect we'll see the same thing with the sequels.

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